(updated January 2024) My patient called me to ask what is that white thing there? In other words…is it normal that my extraction bone graft membrane (white) is showing? An extraction socket bone graft for dental implants that has a non-dissolvable membrane should look like this while it is healing. This procedure is done … Read more
This patient presented to my office in Burbank, CA after seeing numerous “dental implant dentists.” He was told that implants are not possible by three different providers! Bone Loss Needs Large Graft The preoperative image shows that he has very skinny bone in the area where the teeth were lost many years ago. The bone … Read more
The lower front teeth often can be lost as a group even if just one is loose! This is because they are so close to one another. When bone loss effects one tooth it often affects your others as well. In this case the lower right incisor (left on image) appears black at the gum … Read more
This video shows the capture of a digital dental implant impression mold done in my office. This is how I take an impression for an implant. It can be one implant or it can be a whole mouth full of implants. This is a digital implant impression. This is far more accurate than messy gooey … Read more
I would consider this x-ray to have an ideal crown and abutment. This is really critical to the long term of the implants to prevent bone loss that is called peri-implantitis. This happens to be a custom abutment. The abutment is the middle part between the implant in the bone and the crown in your … Read more
Pressure from a removable temporary can cause “dehiscence” which is the incision line opening in the bone graft becoming exposed…YIKES!! This is the worst thing that can happen to any type of bone graft whether it be a sinus lift bone graft, block bone graft, GBR with membrane, socket extraction preservation graft. Types of fixed … Read more
Lower front teeth can be complex implants. Many dentists only focus on the upper front implants and there is not much talked about lower incisor immediate implants. They are usually complicated because the space is very tight. Natural lower teeth are very skinny and oftentimes people have crowding and or periodontal gum disease of these … Read more
This is a great example of a difficult center front tooth dental implant . The gum is thin and it is very scalloped. I restored this case with a cemented (rather than screw retained) custom zirconia abutment and porcelain crown. The white zirconia underneath the gum line prevents the gray show through that many front … Read more
Ramsey Amin DDS I don’t have complications too often but this is one worth sharing. I did a very large block bone graft in the front of the mouth for dental implants. The bone graft was both vertical and horizontal and gained a lot of volume. The block bone graft was held in by screws … Read more
