AAID annual meeting 2013 Oct 24-26 web blog “ORGANIC” DENTISTRY New advancements discussed at this year’s AAID (American Academy of Implant Dentistry) annual meeting held in Phoenix, AZ encouraged me with new techniques to offer our patients. I was surprised to see how digital dentistry (Cad/Cam) has rapidly progressed in the past few years. CBCT […]

I just attended a dental meeting put on by our local dental society, Northern California Dental Society. Our speaker Dr. Gillis gave us a nice overview of dental implant history and their success as well as failures. Understanding the complexities of dental implants and the pre-surgical planning is important for longterm success. One of the […]

What are dental implants? When teeth are lost in the chewing system, bad things happen. The most obvious problems with missing teeth are lack of chewing forces and loss of esthetics. Other problems that arise but are often overlooked until its too late are; drifting of adjacent teeth into the missing space, loss of bone […]