Video: What is Bone Loss?
We lose bone mostly because we have a tooth that’s removed – an injury to the alveolus, the jawbone. An injury to the jawbone usually is the removal of the tooth, an infection of some sort, or […]
We lose bone mostly because we have a tooth that’s removed – an injury to the alveolus, the jawbone. An injury to the jawbone usually is the removal of the tooth, an infection of some sort, or […]
Will my insurance company cover this? More and more dental insurances are covering dental implants because they also understand that this strategy is becoming standard of care for many patients in many circumstances, and we can’t really […]
When a tooth becomes significantly damaged or decayed, it needs a dental crown. In the past, dental crowns have come with metal or gold and could be unsightly. Our dental crowns are made of new technology with […]
There are two elements of bone grafting that are kind of broad strokes. One is creating the space- we call that scaffold, the scaffolding of fact of allowing bone to have enough space to grow. Bone doesn’t […]
I’m Dr. Ben, and I am a third-generation dentist in Buffalo, NY. I have been interested in dentistry since hearing stories about dental care around the dinner table, and it’s always really positive to have this family […]
Once you’ve been told that you have periodontal disease, it doesn’t ever go away forever, but it can be managed so that it’s not in an active state. You’re susceptible to Periodontal Disease for a number of […]
Non-surgical periodontal therapy is a really important and fantastic way to treat one of the two main diseases that dentists treat. Dentists treat gum disease and tooth decay. Most of the time I think patients think if […]
Sedation isn’t necessary for many dental implants. Though it was in the past because the procedure was so aggressive, today everything is minimally invasive. The implant procedure usually doesn’t entail cutting into the gums. In fact, mini-implants […]
Some of the things that I see from our patients, some of their concerns, are based on historical experiences that they’ve had in dentistry in the past. I think that dentistry, as in many areas of medicine, […]
InvisalignⓇ , clear aligners, serial aligners, they’re all in the category that has been made popular by the company InvisalignⓇ. InvisalignⓇ is to clear aligners as Kleenex is to tissue. The brand name of the product isn’t […]