In this episode, we talk about raising dental fees and the fear most dentists get from that and how to respond. I discuss saving stem cells from primary teeth, a dentist who is charged with stealing from his patients, what dentists can do to assist with the opioid addiction and some dental fun facts. Enjoy!
This week I have several items to discuss including a new company that is making a 3D identical titanium and Zirconium dental implant that is designed to fill the socket of an immediately extracted tooth. This would be and will be an amazing technique and I am fascinated by the idea. The episode ends with some dental fun facts!
In this episode, I continue with our book review of Wheelbarrow Profits and then move to a very interesting study that used 5% Fluorouracil instead Modified Carnoy’s solution to decrease the recurrence rate of keratocystic odontogenic tumors with a decrease in paresthesias. If you treat these lesions you will not want to miss this discussion. The Interesting Case shows the surgical approach to removal of a mandibular bicuspid that is an extra tooth. The pictures are worth checking out!
In my experience, only two implant systems excel at preserving crestal bone. Astra and Ankylos implants are the only two that I have seen published and personal results with preserved marginal bone. This week I delve into several excellent articles and break down the data on marginal bone loss. I currently place mostly Nobel implants followed by Astra implants. One article shows that after the one year mark the bone loss for an Astra implant was the same as a Branemark implant but the key is that this was after close to 1.75mm of bone loss with the Branemark vs the 0.4mm of bone loss with the Astra implant