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Deciding Between All-on-4 Or Traditional Dental Implants

Question submitted by: Derek I need to get a full set of dental implants. If I get the all-on-4 it will save me a bone grafting procedure. But, someone is telling me that all-on-4 isn’t as safe. Now I’m torn. Would I be better off if I got the bone grafting and regular implants instead? […]

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 […]

She Needs to See a Specialist

Question submitted by: Caroline For the last couple of weeks, I have been having tooth pain. Because of my dental anxiety, I don’t really have a dentist. I was hurting, so I did go to see an emergency dentist. He did an x-ray and said that there is now an infection on a tooth that […]

Dentist Placed an Implant Knowing It Would Fail

Question submitted by Charity: I am frustrated and wondering what my options are. I went in for a dental implant procedure. My dentist said everything looked good ahead of time. However, when I woke up from my surgery, he told me that there was not enough bone to retain the dental implant. However, he placed […]

Dental Implant Placed with Poor Bone Implant

Question submitted by: Benjamin I need some advice on what to do. When I went into my dental implant procedure, my dentist assured me we were in good shape. However, when I woke up from the surgery he then told me that it turned out I didn’t have enough bone structure for the dental implant. […]