Oct
08
2020
Yesterday was a good day, I was lucky enough to have a lovely patient who wanted to have some "teeth in the space of one day" or as we would term it, upper and lower immediate arches. This a technique whereby, patients can have missing or damaged teeth removed; implants pla...
Oct
06
2020
I was shocked today by a patient that I was seeing for an implant yearly review, to find she had a massive filling missing from one of her teeth. I said to her that she must as a matter of urgency, have it repaired by her own dentist. She then told me the sad tale; she had...
Apr
29
2016
I was struck this morning by the in adequacy of training in implant dentistry for some of my dental colleagues. I accept referrals and every week I am sent patients from other practices. I help to diagnose problems, and try to help them by placing implants and their associated restorations if it is ...
Mar
11
2016
A very nice lady consulted me couple of years back, with regard to providing her with several dental implants around her mouth. She was in fact desperately in need of some sort of dental restoration. She had an ill-fitting acrylic denture, which jumped and moved when she eat. She had missi...
Mar
01
2016
I often hear patients say I can't have implants. I don't have enough bone. I am delighted to be able to tell everyone that this is almost universally untrue! It might be that at the time of consultation, that they don't have enough bone volume. However, in these enlightened days, all experienced Imp...
Feb
22
2016
Often people ask me, why are dental implants so expensive? The question itself is flawed, how expensive is relative to each individual person and their individual values. For instance, a 70 foot Sunseeker motor yacht is an enormously expensive item to the normal man on the street, but merely pocket ...
Feb
17
2016
One of the questions that has been a constant difficulty, both from me, and my potential patients, is the question â€
how do I choose an Implantologist
Jul
01
2015
The fear of losing our teeth or in fact, a single tooth is one that many people, understandably experience. For many people, the prospect of a seemingly complex procedure and permanently replacing the tooth with a dental implant is simply too much. Instead, they leave a gap or resort to a dentur...
Mar
13
2014
I left home this morning at 0630, in the trusty Cooper S to drive to Lyme, only to find that I could only see 10 metres! Having crawled to work in by now a grumpy mood; I dropped down the hill into Uplyme into bright sunshine. Lovely, my whole day improved, the sea twinkled, warmth ...
Feb
07
2014
Rain rain rain, it's like a tropical rainforest without the trees and the heat! At last today some sunshine and this makes everyone feel better, I have noticed that generally people seem to go into hibernation in the rainy weather, they don't feel good, don't want treatment, they just feel miserable...
