Dental implants have transformed the modern practice of dentistry, but all implants are not created equal. There are two main materials used in modern dental implants: Titanium and Zirconia.  Titanium has been used for a long time with good results and it is widely available. The downside to using titanium is that, while it is […]

Question back there, sir. Okay.  So, two separate questions.  First one is what is titanium?  Titanium is in the periodic table.  It’s an element.  It’s not an alloy.  It’s found as titanium.  Tons of it.  It’s found all over the place.  It’s not a very expensive metal.  Just getting titanium in a pure form is […]

Another younger patient with what’s a sarcoma or a tumor of the bone end up with implants and a graft.  Removable, again, because in this case, you can see where these teeth are and how far down this bone is.  So, we needed to replace normally the teeth with the gum to make it look […]

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 […]

Going to the dentist can be a frightening experience. Most people would do anything to avoid it. This fear is known as dental anxiety or dental phobia, and affects up to 20 percent of Americans. It basically leaves people terrified and panic-stricken. Some patients experience severe anxiety, flu-like symptoms, nervousness, and sleeping problems before a […]