The All on 4 dental implant procedure has become quite popular. You probably even hear about it on radio and TV advertising. Even many dentists don’t really understand it. It is sometimes advertised as the “smile and a day” procedure. All on four is simply a treatment option for replacing all of your teeth … Read more
Bleeding for most people it is not an issue after a routine dental extraction, bone graft or multiple dental implants. It does occur tough ! When it does occur it can be pretty disconcerting, and can look like a whole lot of blood is coming out of your mouth. It doesn’t take but a few drops … Read more
Dizziness is a rare complication that can occur in patients that have an internal sinus lift for dental implants in the upper jaw. This is called vertigo. More accurately it is called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo – BPPV. In my private practice over the last 14 years I have had extremely few patients that have … Read more
You may have had your tooth extracted and a bone graft placed at the same time. About once or twice a week I get emails from around the world with patients that have had this very common (pre dental implant) procedure. You may be worried because you can see that the bone is exposed inside … Read more
Dental implants, especially in the front of the mouth, need to be placed with a high degree of accuracy. When an implant is placed too shallow or worse yet too deep in the front of the mouth it creates a cosmetic failure– a long tooth and sometimes black triangles. This is especially true on a … Read more
Short dental implants have been around for a long time. I mainly only use them in one area of the mouth. The lower back molar area is the most common area to use shorter, smaller dental implants to avoid damage to nerve that is inside the bone. For more than a decade, I have been … Read more
This is a dental implant immediate tooth replacement case that I did in my Burbank office a few days ago. There are many details that make this dental implant unique. He only lost this tooth about six months ago, and the bone had already shrank, causing an indentation defect on the critical outer wall of the bone. … Read more
First off I want to be clear that you cannot have dental implants without having enough bone to support dental implants. BUT…sometimes you don’t need to rebuild ALL the bone to have the same result. Sometimes rebuilding ALL the bone does not yield as nice of a result than if you bone grafted back just … Read more
Full mouth dentistry with dental implants and crowns can get very complex. I treated this patient in my Burbank office with nine dental implants and a total of more than 20 crowns. The full mouth dental reconstruction involved the upper and lower teeth and opening the bite to be taller. The three minute audio recording … Read more
Your sinuses are big hollow holes above your upper teeth. The roots of your upper back teeth are really close to your sinus. In order to have dental implants in that area, sometimes a sinus lift bone graft is necessary to treat the expanded sinus. Whether you live in Burbank ,Glendale or Los Angeles, all … Read more