The Dental & The Incidental
My blogging journey began in 2009, when few dentists shared their thoughts online. What began as an occasional musing about dentistry has since become a passionate commitment. I’ve published at least one new blog post every month for over 15 years. That’s more than 200 posts and counting!…
The future is now. For those of us who’ve entered our fifth or sixth decade, the Etch A Sketch we remember so fondly from our childhoods has been replaced by a tablet and smartphone. During our early formative years, we could only fantasize about the kind of advanced…
So, you’re having a problem with a tooth, and as fate would have it, it’s a pretty big problem. Maybe the tooth broke below the gumline, or it had root canal a while ago and for some yet to be determined reason has become problematic, or perhaps you…
All-On-Four, Teeth In A Day, Permanent Tooth Replacement, and Immediate Tooth Replacement – they all mean the same thing: dental implants. Essentially, a dental implant is a device (usually made of titanium) that is placed into your jawbone to permanently replace the root of a missing tooth. Once…
A WOW moment is an experience that infuses you with a feeling of exuberant exultation. Be it a first-hand accomplishment (passing the Bar, making a game-winning half-court shot, becoming a parent) or witnessing a truly remarkable achievement (Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon, Martin Luther King’s “I…
Perhaps the emergency phone call I received last Saturday from a patient with a cracked tooth was a portent of the week to come… My long-time patient Alan was driving along in his car last Saturday, happily munching from a freshly opened bag of tortilla chips. Suddenly he…
A little-known piece of dental trivia is that implant dentistry is the second oldest discipline of dentistry with oral surgery (tooth extraction) being the oldest. Logic dictates that tooth loss must precede tooth replacement, but what is surprising is that surgical implantation of an artificial tooth dates back…
