Costa Rica Dental Experiences

Today I would like to help you to think about the importance of a complete dental service. Often the information about the quality of services we rely on is poor and this causes us to lose huge amounts of time and mental energy. Our brain, in fact, cannot close that chapter but the "file" relating to the service we would like to obtain must remain open until perhaps, one day, we will come to terms with it. Today I'm on vacation because I decided with my wife to use the morning to buy a piece of furniture that she is asking me for a long time. -- Since I already know how it ends up in these cases I don't go directly to the store but, as a shrewd person, I call first to ask if they can provide me with that service. Answer (I swear I'm not kidding !!): "Look ... call our representative (???) so she will tell you what you want to know. I'll give you the number ... " The representative listened to my large explanation on the phone and, in an equ...

Nowadays, whatever expenses are incurred to pay for an item is balanced by a guarantee. When is a health service paid the same thing? "Medicine is not an exact science", we often hear. And in the health field, there are diagnostic and operational processes that differ in many ways from the mere purchase of an object. But it is also true that healthcare costs put a strain on patients' pockets, which cannot be deprived of a form of guarantee on the therapies to which they have been subjected, so the subject I believe deserves further study. Just last month I had 30 minutes on the agenda to meet the lawyer of one of my patients who is carrying out a legal battle to claim damages and compensation against her previous dentist. She had been reporting her previous dentist due to issues with an aesthetically beautiful total ceramic crown restoration, which underneath the crowns I don't think there was even one without infection. This has made me reflect on what form...

The All on 4 (all on four) and the All on 6 implantology (all on six) are surgical techniques for the total rehabilitation of the two arches   (upper and lower jaws) that have become very popular in the last decade. The inventor of this technique is a Portuguese dentist: Dr. Paulo Malo, who has taken up the concepts of implant surgery developed in the 90s, which suggested the possibility of avoiding complex and invasive interventions, such as bone grafts or maxillary sinus elevations, inclining the implants in a way to anchor them in the patient's residual bone. Table of contents 1   About Implantology All on 4 and implantology All on 6 2   Implantology: removal of alveolar bone 3   A minimal-invasive alternative 4    AllonSix Prettau® protocol with respect to implantology All on 4 and implantology All on 6: What are the advantages? About All-on-4 implantology and implantology All-on-6 The relative ease of these technique...

The fear of the dentist is really widespread among people: Why? What are the deep psychological causes of what can take the form of a real phobia? First of all, let me say that I am not a Psychiatrist but I have friends who are and they explained the concept very well. What I'm saying below is a summary of what they told me. For any further information, In this case, I encourage you to read the disclaimer at the bottom of this article. The first point I would like to talk to you about is the one related to the concepts of Trust and Confiance. Trusting a person, be it a friend or your dentist, has to do with a rational process. You trust only when and if you have good rational reasons to do so. In the case of dental practices, when you perceive a very high level of professional preparation, and an efficient work team of very high-level technological infrastructures, etc ... you will end to trust them. Ok, but to win, in this case, is your rational mind. I will explain to ...

Here we are talking about the "rejection" of dental implants. One of the phrases we hear most often is: - "I don't want to put the implants because a lady I know has had a rejection and she told me that is dangerous". In a small town, all people meet outside the church or in the supermarket. They speak out loud their opinions with a seriousness that makes you believe that they really know that is the sacred truth. Or: - "I won't be able to plant them !!! My Dentist told me that I have no bone".  Here I have to admit that I have to breathe deeply, it forces me to smile before the answer. Let's start with a definition of Wikipedia: ¨We talk about transplant rejection when the immune system of a transplanted patient attacks the new organ, recognizing it as non-self like bacteria or viruses.¨ Here we are! "Transplant", not "Implant". Transplantation is the transfer of an Organ or Tissue into the same individ...

In the previous article, we have clarified an important concept: the rejection of implants does not exist and those who speak of rejection are cunning or do not know what they are talking about. At the end of the previous article, I explained to you that the failure of the Implants is caused by a series of factors that act together and most of them are not known yet! But we know well most of them and I want to explain them to you in this article. Here are the 4 causes of dental implant failure -- (surely there are a thousand others but we don't know it yet) First Cause: The experience and knowledge of the Surgeon. Wouldn't you have thought that?  What will it take to make a hole in your bone and place a screw? Well, obviously there is a lot of experience and knowledge. A recent scientific article tells us that implants placed by general dentists fail significantly more than those inserted by implantology specialists.  Just to clarify, the general den...