Ceramic Implant Training Course

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...

Oral Surgery

Oral Surgery For Wisdom Teeth Removal 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...

Metal-Free Dental Implants

Ceramic dental implants, specifically known as zirconium or zirconia dental implants, are one of the newer forms of dental implants. Just like with titanium implants the use of zirconia as an implant material in medicine preceded its dental application. Zirconia has...

Live Surgery Using Zirconia Dental Implants

WHAT IS BIOLOGICAL DENTISTRY? “It incorporates the time-proven healing methods of homeopathy, acupuncture, nutrition, physical therapy and herbology, as well as the more modern sciences of neural therapy, hematology, immunology and electro-acupuncture. Such modalities...

Guided Bone Regeneration & Bone Graft

Guided Bone Regeneration Guided Bone Regeneration Is The Process By Which Bone Is Regenerated In A Deficient Prospective Implant Area And In Some Cases Around A Tooth That Has Lost Some Bone. This method of bone augmentation requires not only the bone material (graft)...

Gum Care

Gum Care WHAT IS ‘PLAQUE’ AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT MY TEETH? Plaque is a colorless, sticky film of bacteria that constantly forms on teeth. If left undisturbed, it hardens to form tartar. The bacteria in the plaque produce byproducts that can not only irritate the gums...