The Dental & The Incidental
Today’s modern dentistry offers some pretty high tech options for patients who are missing teeth. Although I still have many patients who have traditional dental bridges or dentures, more and more of them are choosing to have dental implants as part of the solution to their deficient dentition…
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…
Let me start by saying that most advanced procedures in restorative dentistry are expensive. Including implant dentistry. But before you decide that implants are too expensive for you, please read on. There’s more to the story. Despite the many great advances in dentistry, about 65% of the U.S.…
After a busy week in the office, I was enjoying my morning coffee on Fire Island when I received an “emergency” phone call from my patient, Tina. Tina had been the recipient of extensive restorative dentistry (crowns and permanent bridgework) over the course of her adult life. She is…
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…
So you are missing a tooth, several teeth, or perhaps even all your teeth. And you are looking into having dental implants as part of your permanent tooth replacement solution. From times that go back millennia (no exaggeration) the practice of dentistry has addressed the problem of missing teeth. The…
