(Caption: Subperiosteal dental implant inserted on the day of surgery) A subperiosteal implant is a custom metal frame implant that goes OVER the bone rather than into the bone.  They are an option for patients with dentures who were told they cannot have implants due to severe bone loss.  Regular dental implants are basically screws that are inserted INTO the bone. A subperiosteal dental implant is nothing new.  Actually they were used in the 1970s and 1980s, but then became less popular when screw-type implants became popular.  Think of it like a taco shell. A subperioste ..read more

Smoking has a negative effect on dental implants and bone grafting procedures. You can either smoke or you can have teeth, but you cannot have both! Smoking anything of any kind has a negative effect on dental implant procedures. The nicotine constricts the blood vessels leading to poor healing and much higher incidence of infection with pain. Even after the implants are installed, smokers typically lose gum and bone around implants. Watch the video below to learn a lot more about dental implants and tobacco cigarettes, electronic cigarettes (vape) and marijuana use. I also mention some ways o ..read more

The topic today is alcohol and dental implants. There’s a great majority of people who drink alcohol. Some do it in moderation. Some do it very heavily. It’s going to affect your dental implant surgery, for sure. Let’s talk about how alcohol affects it. Transcription below if you choose to read instead of watch. Alcohol consumption increases the risks of dental implant and bone grafting postoperative complications…always. It shortens the lifespan of the implants in the long term, as well! In fact, it’s going to affect all types of surgery that you have done, whether it’s in your mou ..read more

If you have active gum disease (periodontitis) and need full mouth implants All on 4/5/6 there are several issues to consider.  The most important of all is that the gum disease problem that you have around your teeth can also affect the implants. What!!!! Teeth with hidden gum problems/bone lossSmile after dental implants As I have said in the past, dental implants are not permanent!  Dental implants can lose bone and gum just like teeth can!  The real term for this is called “peri-implantitis.”   It’s important to know that patients with active gum/periodontal disease who ..read more

Pterygoid implants are often used along with zygomatic or other implants (to learn more about this particular type of implant, visit my webpage here).  They can be extremely useful to allow you to get teeth quickly and safely for the upper jaw “all on 4/6 dental implants.”  These are very specialized implants that are only placed by a handful of dentists on a regular basis.  They require an immense skillset since they are placed with a “blind” technique. Additionally, they are placed completely by feel (between the medial and lateral pterygoid bone plates). In this case I used p ..read more

Why do some dental implants take four to six months, but other types of dental implants can be done in one day? Okay. Let’s address this question because it is a common one and it’s misunderstood a lot. So a dental implant, no matter where it goes in the body, in general takes somewhere between three to six months on average to integrate to your jaw bone. Biology is biology, whether it’s in me or it’s in you. Typically, three to six months for integration, really a full year before the dental implant really becomes solid. And that depends on how hard or how soft your bone is. So where are the ..read more

$399 dental implant. Don’t fall for it! What is the catch? Why are implants so expensive? These are these things I hear all of the time. Let’s address some of these things…especially the $399 dental implant catch and some of the advertisements you might see. Watch the video or read below (video transcription lightly edited for easier reading). Dental implants require skill, training and lots of experience Keep in mind that a dental implant is a medical device being implanted into your body, it’s not just simply a screw just put in there haphazardly. This is a very precise science, and really ..read more

The all on 4 dental implant full mouth solution is not without problems. In fact, many patients come to me to fix all-on-4 dental implant problems and remove failed implants. It is a major decision to have this treatment done.  In very skilled hands, this procedure has a very high success rate.  There can be problems both long-term and short-term.  These complications can be minimized by having treatment with a very experienced team that cares about the long-term outcome. Keep in mind that the term “all on 4” is a catch all term for full mouth dental implants.  It coul ..read more

I’d like to go through an example of a case I’ve completed that really shows a life change…fast dental implants and dentures in one day (“teeth in a day”). So this wonderful man, who really is just a great guy, has quite a dental situation going on. You can see that he has no upper teeth, he wears a denture that doesn’t fit and doesn’t look very good and the lower teeth are failing, as well. So how do we take him from this situation over here into fixed teeth? Or in his case, sometimes we have to transition through a denture as well, or we can do one side as a denture and one side as complete ..read more

Mini dental implants and zygomatic implants are as opposite as they come! In this video I explain how someone with “no bone” on the upper jaw would consider mini dental implants vs. zygomatic/pterygoid dental implants. Which type of dental implant lasts longer? Which type of implant is prone to problems? Video Transcription lightly edited for easy reading: Hello, I’m Dr. Ramsey Amin. Today the topic is something that’s quite the opposite: mini implants versus zygomatic and pterygoid implants. Now we’re typically talking about replacing the full upper jaw (all of the teeth in the upper arc ..read more