Dental Implants Archives | Howard M. Steinberg, DMD, MDS

Do I Need an Oral Surgeon for Bone Grafting?

Question submitted by: Troy I need to get some bone grafting done in order to be prepared for getting dental implants. My dentist sent me to a prosthodontist for the dental implants because he doesn’t do them. However, I was thinking I would need an oral surgeon for the bone grafting first. When I went […]

Tooth Replacements for Hockey Players

Question submitted by: Olivia: My son won a spot on a collegiate hockey team. They met for a clinic this past weekend. During one of the training sessions, my son lost a tooth. The other teammates cheered, telling him he was “official” now. Meanwhile, I have a young man who is now mortified by how […]

Temporary Tooth Replacements Waiting on Dental Implant Procedure

Question submitted by Marie My twelve year old daughter has a congenitally missing lateral incisor. We plan to replace it with a dental implant when she is old enough. In the meantime, we have completed her orthodontics in order to make sure the space is open when her jaw is developed enough. They’ve put a […]

Dentist Can’t Get My Implant Crown to Match My Teeth

Question submitted by Claudia: My front tooth has a dental crown put on it. At first I had a dental flipper while everything healed up. It didn’t match perfectly but it was close. Though, I am wanting a permanent replacement. The problem I am running into is that the dental crown my dentist keeps preparing […]

Keys to Avoiding Dental Implant Failure

Question submitted by Kevin I have short listed two dentists for my dental implant on an upper tooth, but I have one concern about each of them. One of them wants to do a CT scan, which I am not completely convinced is completely necessary. Over the years, I have had many x-rays and I […]

Clear Choice or Costa Rica for Dental Implants?

Question submitted by Troy I was looking at getting dental implants but have some bone loss that I need to deal with. Clear choice said they could work around that with all on four dental implants. However, I’ve read some reviews by people that said they felt abandoned after they had the procedure done. I’m […]

His Dentist Really Blew This

Question submitted by Deanna: I had a dental implant placed and it started to feel loose. I went back to my dentist and he said that it was probably just the crown that was loose. He felt it could easily be bonded back on. However, things didn’t go so well. He had trouble taking off […]

Bone Grafting Fails

Question submitted by Stan: My dentist was going to give me a dental implant, but when he went in he realized there wasn’t enough bone for the implant. He suggested that I get a bone grafting procedure done. He’d been studying it and felt he could take care of that himself. So, I had the […]

Should I Remove My Titanium Implants?

Question submitted by Mary: I started seeing a holistic dentist. I need a dental implant and she is suggesting that I get a zirconia dental implant. In fact, she is also suggesting that I remove my current titanium dental implant and replace it with a zirconia one because she read in a natural news site […]

Preventing Facial Collapse

I just turned 36 years old and my doctor just diagnosed me with a severe calcium deficiency. I’ve been having massive trouble with my teeth especially since my second pregnancy. I thought my teeth problems were because of the vomiting during my pregnancy. But, my dentist thinks that the calcium deficiency is my problem and […]