“Hello! I’m Dr. BreeAnn Christiansen, holistic dentist at San Diego Dentist in San Diego. And today I’m going to talk about a very common issue, a very scary issue, and something that a lot of people have to go through. So here’s the situation. You just found out that one of your front teeth has […]

Aging on the prostetus workforce the average age of the prostetus workforce is going up. You can see its risen from  2000 to nearly over  50 and most people in the room, looking around a little bit , there’s  quite a few of you that are  aged over  40 which is great to see but […]

Putting that all together where does that get us? Well I’m going to give you some good news  this afternoon but so at    the news has all been couched in guarded terms. So tot this point we’ve found out that the situation of the patients medically is becoming more complex. We we i narrow […]

We’re going to move on to healing reactions. I thought it was tagged here, give me a second.   SPEAKER 1: While they’re finding that, let me bring you a couple bits of information that came up after yesterday’s class. I was shown in the handbook where it talks about cooking potatoes, and it says […]

SPEAKER 1: Am I on? I don’t hear you.   DR. SMITH: Okay, hello. All right, we’re really getting a lot more questions and a lot of things coming up as you learn more and more. I know a lot more questions come up in the mind, and our panel, hopefully you can cover any […]

People who have a lot of cavities or other troubles with their teeth sometimes get to feeling like they want nothing more than to end the pain. For many of these people the obvious and immediate answer is to get rid of the problem, even if it means pulling the teeth that are causing the […]

Patients with substantial bone loss in the lower jaw who wear traditional lower dentures often deal with several issues, including difficulty holding them in place, trouble with speaking and eating, pain especially from pressure spots and friction, and sores caused by rubbing. Some patients are able to have implants in the lower jaw that can […]

The problems with lower dentures are so common that a popular dental school joke suggests you should charge $4,000 for upper dentures and do the lower one for free.  Then when the patient complains about them, you can ask what they expect when they get it for free.  The fact is, surveys show that 80% […]

Biocompatible dentists are often asked how patients can learn more about their dental health – and what issues people need to be considering as they think about the intersection between their oral health and their overall health. As biological dentist Dr. Daniel Vinograd pointed out in a recent UCSD lecture, there’s actually quite a lot […]