Cone-Beam Guided Implant Surgery (CGBIS) CBGIS allows your dental implant procedure to be fully precision-planned in our advanced 3D CAD-CAM system virtually, well before your actual surgery. The majority of the work occurs when you are not in the dental office. In the planning stages of implant treatment, a 3D XRAY(CBCT) is taken in our…
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What’s Better Titanium or Zirconia? There are pros and cons with each type of material and we would recommend a certain type of implant after listening to our patient’s concerns and goals. Below are a few categories most often analyzed when deciding between the two. Cost – The cost to manufacture zirconia (think cubic zirconia…
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Zirconia? Huh? Dentists and patients agree that, when it comes to replacing lost teeth, implants are by far the best option. Unlike bridgework, your adjacent natural teeth are not disrupted and function and esthetics can be restored very similar to that of your own natural teeth. The preservation of your jawbone, and the shape/fullness of…
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Implant Bridges In sections of the mouth where there is more than one tooth missing, we can install one or more dental implant fixtures and place a bridge over them. This will prevent the necessity of making a conventional bridge, which requires drilling adjacent natural teeth and the wearing of partial, removable dentures. Implant Partial…
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Immediate Implant Placement (IIP) Explained: Implant Dentistry is the most advanced therapy available to replace missing teeth, because implant restorations generally look, feel, and act like natural teeth. This field has advanced greatly through the years. Through research, new implant designs and implant surface textures have been developed which help dental implants integrate much faster…
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Whether you have several missing teeth or just one, it is a serious matter. Every tooth that is missing really should be replaced. While bridgework and dentures are better than doing nothing, only dental implants can prevent the potentially very serious bone loss that occurs whenever a tooth is lost. Getting a single dental implant…
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What is a Sinus Augmentation or “Lift”? Many times when maxillary (upper jaw) molars or second premolars are extracted, and the sites are not bone grafted, major resorption of the bone and thinning of the remaining bone ridge occurs. As a result, there is less bone volume below the maxillary sinus cavity (empty space below…
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What is Ridge Augmentation? When a tooth is removed, depending on the history and the cause of tooth loss, there can be resorption of the ridge. Generally, the longer it has been since the tooth removal, the higher the chances of bone atrophy. Regeneration of the bone ridge becomes necessary for optimal placement of dental…
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What are Dental Implants, and Why Should I Get Them? Integrative Dental Specialists of Long Island is well versed in both tooth extraction and in the placement of dental implants. Dental implants will restore the beauty and functionality of your smile where the missing tooth was taken out, and many patients are good candidates for…
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What is Tooth Extraction Site Preservation and why is it so important? When a tooth is removed, the jawbone that supports that tooth (called the alveolar “ridge” bone) begins to slowly degenerate, as does the overlying, all-important, keratinized, attached gum tissue. To prevent this from happening after a tooth extraction, Dr. Jeffrey “Dr. Jeff” Etess,…
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