The Dental & The Incidental
Of all the many miraculous innovations in dentistry that have occurred in the past few decades, dental implants are indeed the most revolutionary. For the first time in history, a dentist can actually replace a missing tooth with something that not only looks and feels like a real tooth but…
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those of us who’ve entered our fifth or sixth decade, the Etch A Sketch we remember so fondly from our childhoods has been replaced by a tablet and smartphone.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…
