Our preference for predictability in the back of the mouth is to actually use gold.  Not everybody likes that, but in the back of the mouth, for most of us dentists, gold is the gold standard.  There’s nothing better than gold in terms of how it behaves and how it responds, but not all of […]

Basically, what you see here is a patient who got only got two dental mini implants or two screws, and there’s a little gold bar that’s been made.  The inside of the denture has some clips, and these clips clamp onto that and allow this denture to be held in place very well.  So, it […]

It’s really boring.  You’ve got to sit there, and you watch this thing slowly going in.  You know, great, next.  Let’s get going.  It’s just the nature of you, and we have to patience.  We want everything done right away, but it’s absolutely critical that you do that. The drills that they use is very […]

This turns us around to osseointegration, and what is osseointegration?  It’s pretty interesting.  A lot of things that get discovered in science actually get discovered accidentally, or the person who’s looking or researching a particular aspect is looking at something and the outcome is totally different. Osseointegration was actually discovered in the late 1950s and […]

Hi everybody!  It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the last meeting of Bionic Man & Woman and also a great pleasure to introduce Dr. Arun Sharma who has been here with you in the UC School of Dentistry for a number of years.  He wears an amazing number of hats.  He serves as professor […]

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