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Two-Day Hands On And Live Surgery Ceramic Implant Course – Winter Session January 26 & 27 2012, Maryland USA

COURSE OBJECTIVES This course is designed to provide the clinician with the ability to confidently integrate one-piece zirconia dental implantology in his/her practice. This will be achieved by means of lectures, over the shoulder hands-on sessions on models as well...

Accurate And Precise Implant Size Selection And Placement Planning Using (CBCT) Scan Technology

by Sammy Noumbissi, DDS

The case presented here details the process by which Dr. Noumbissi uses dental Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) technology also commonly called 3D dental imaging to diagnose and plan the course of treatment for all our implant patients. This technology has been...

Front Tooth Replacement With A Zirconia Dental Implant

by Sammy Noumbissi, DDS

This is a case where the patient lost a front tooth a few years before. As time went by the patient realized that wearing a removable partial denture also called “flipper” was very uncomfortable and affected the ability to socialize with confidence. Dental implants...

Ceramic Implant Training Course

by Sammy Noumbissi, DDS

We just wrapped up a great training course on ceramic dental implants using Z-Systems Zirconia implants. With several dentists in our Silver Spring Implant practice, we spent three hours going over the basics of how to place a ceramic dental implant, which types of...

Cosmetic Care

by Sammy Noumbissi, DDS

MY OLD FILLINGS IN THE FRONT HAVE TURNED DARK, CAN THEY BE BLEACHED? Unfortunately, dental bondings, composite resin fillings (tooth colored fillings) and old crowns cannot be bleached. Fillings that have discolored indicate that they are either leaking or have...

Oral Surgery

by Sammy Noumbissi, DDS

WHAT ARE WISDOM TEETH? Also called third molars, wisdom teeth usually make their first appearance in young adults between the ages of 15 to 25. Because most mouths are too small for these four additional molars, an extraction procedure, sometimes immediately after...