2012 — Exciting Changes Ahead!

As our Char­lotte NC den­tal office closed out 2011 and opens for 2012, there are some excit­ing changes and addi­tions ahead, which we hope will lead to more com­fort­able, faster, longer-lasting, more esthetic, and even more suc­cess­ful out­comes for our patients of all ages.  So here’s a pre­view of the 2 biggest changes/additions:

Den­tal Implants

Of all the plans for the year, I am most excited about start­ing a 9-month long den­tal implant con­tin­uüm of really intense train­ing on all aspects of plan­ning, plac­ing, and restor­ing den­tal implants.  From March through Novem­ber, it’s 216 Hours of in-depth train­ing by world-renowned spe­cial­ists.  Once com­pleted, I will be fully trained and qual­i­fied to do the fol­low­ing procedures:

1. Single-tooth replace­ment with an implant and crown
2. Replace 3–14 miss­ing teeth with a den­tal implant-supported bridge
3. Rebuild bone in areas that need it before an implant can be placed
4. Do addi­tional gum graft­ing in areas where needed for implant success
5. Place mul­ti­ple implants to sup­port a “snap-in” denture
6. Use the most mod­ern 3-D x-rays to plan and fin­ish the most com­plex cases

Bet­ter One-Day Porce­lain Den­tal Crowns and Onlays

Shortly before Christ­mas, we received the newest and biggest soft­ware update EVER for our CEREC CAD/CAM sys­tem, which we absolutely love already.

Totally redesigned to make it eas­ier and faster to get natural-looking, all-porcelain den­tal crowns in just one day, we can now do mul­ti­ple crowns and onlays all at once, even in dif­fer­ent parts of the mouth.

If all goes really well (fin­gers crossed!), will be adding a new 3D Cone Beam X-ray machine that inte­grates per­fectly with CEREC.  This com­bi­na­tion will let us plan den­tal implants and crowns or bridges all together!