High Quality CT Images for Dental Implant Patients

Dr. Douglas Goldsmith and Dr. Gary Orentlicher are both board certified oral and maxillofacial surgeons in private practice in Scarsdale, New York. They co-founded Facial Imaging, LLC, a company that makes it easy for doctors located both within and outside the United States to obtain and utilize CT images for their dental implant patients. The process produces high quality 3-D images quickly and economically for use in developing patient treatment plans for implant placement and restoration.

Facial Imaging can process CT or cone beam scan data for any 3-D software program. The doctor can view a scan on his or her computer just hours after a patient has had their CT scan performed. Facial Imaging has partnered with over 30 imaging centers in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts and is in the process of expanding their geographic outreach. Facial Imaging also offers 3-D treatment planning services. Read on to learn more about Facial Imaging. You can also visit their website at: www.facialimagingllc.com

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December 18, 2006 in CT Scanning, Dental Implant Interviews, Implant Practice Management | Permalink

Educating Patients About Dental Implants

Dr. Marc Nevins is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontics and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.  He maintains a private practice limited to Periodontics and Implants in Boston.  Dr. Nevins has taken time out of his busy practice to discuss his protocol for educating patients about dental implant treatment.

OsseoNews:  Dr. Nevins, what do you consider to be the most vexing problems of dental implant treatment?

Dr. Nevins:  Patient education is an important area often overlooked for its complexity.  When we present a treatment plan to the patient that involves implants, we are faced with the problem of communicating information effectively to the patient.  They must be able to make an informed decision about their treatment and ideally recruited as a co-therapist in the process.

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October 30, 2006 in Implant Practice Management | Permalink | Comments (2)

Dental Implant Liability?

Dr. Wiggs, asks us:

Several years ago one of my patients called on the New Year Holiday weekend and said she just fractured tooth # 7 which was recently part of anterior restorations in Porcelain----some full porcelain crowns and others porcelain laminates.  My office was closed but I told her to come in--the remaining root structure could not be restored and I told her it would have to be extracted and could be replaced with a dental implant or a 3 unit fixed bridge.

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October 3, 2006 in Implant Practice Management, Legal Issues | Permalink | Comments (9)

Informed Consent

Edward, a dentist, asks:
What procedures are recommended for getting  informed consent on the aesthetic result of the dental implant procedure?

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September 25, 2006 in Implant Practice Management | Permalink | Comments (2)

Communicating Effectively with Dental Implant Patients

Dr. Jeffrey Ganeles is a Board Certified Periodontist in Boca Raton, Florida and practices with the Florida Institute for Periodontics & Dental Implants. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor and Interim Director for Post-Graduate Periodontics at Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine in Ft. Lauderdale. Dr. Ganeles and his team developed a computer software program to enable dentists and their staff to communicate more effectively with patients.

Osseonews: Dr. Ganeles, the staff and readers of Osseonews.com would like to thank you for taking time out of you very busy schedule for this interview. Can you tell us how you became interested in this area of communications?

Dr. Ganeles: I recognized some time ago, both as a clinician and teacher, that we were all having problems communicating dental problems and treatment options with patients. This issue increased as our therapeutic abilities improved and the cost of treatment escalated. Many dentists still try to explain what is wrong by showing patients’ radiographs or drawing on bracket table covers. This is really ineffective. It is very difficult to explain sophisticated, expensive dentistry, using crude visual aids. An analogy would be that our patients would never accept a recommendation for a new car from a hand-made drawing, so why do we try to educate patients for expensive treatment from basic visual aids? Some dentists will even show clinical photographs with blood and saliva and holes in the bone where they are going to screw in an implant.

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September 18, 2006 in Dental Implant Interviews, Implant Practice Management | Permalink | Comments (6)

Dental Implant Maintenance

Dan, a dentist, asks:

I am having a hard time getting my dental implant patients to return for regularly scheduled routine maintenance of their implants. 

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August 21, 2006 in Implant Practice Management, Maintenance of Dental Implants | Permalink | Comments (2)

Radiolucencies Around The Implant

Alan, a dentist, asks us:
I have a question regarding a lower arch oral rehabilitation case that I have done 1 year ago. The patient had severe peridontally involved teeth which were all removed to be replaced with
5 dental implants.

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August 1, 2006 in Dental Implant Complications, Implant Practice Management | Permalink | Comments (32)

Implants Impacting Endodontics?

Steven asks us:
I am going into my fourth year of dental school and am trying to figure out what direction to go after I graduate.  My family dentist encouraged me to go into a specialty and he recommended endodontics. 

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July 17, 2006 in Implant Practice Management | Permalink | Comments (15)

Maximizing Case Acceptance

How can I maximize case acceptance for both myself and my referring doctors?

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June 27, 2006 in Implant Practice Management | Permalink | Comments (2)

Dental Implant Marketing: Getting the Word Out

Dr. Henderson asks: I am just getting into implant dentistry. Right now I am just starting to restore dental implants and we have begun to treatment plan for dental implants on a selective basis.

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June 19, 2006 in Implant Practice Management | Permalink | Comments (3)