Costa Rica Dental Experiences

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...

There is something that always surprises the dentists when a patient visits their clinic for the first time. Medical history is compiled before you sit down at the dental chair and the doctor see you for the first time, which is the way to indicate a series of questions about the patient's state of health. One of the questions we ask concerns the reason for the visit, which is often "control and cleaning". As soon as doctors introduced themself and read the medical history, the first thing they say to the patient is: - "Ok, you wrote that you came for a check and a hygiene session. So you have no particular suspicions or pains? Does everything look okay? " And often the answer is: - "Yes, it was a while since I went to the dentist ... I wanted to do some cleaning" Then the doctors ask: - "And in the past have you have had big problems or do you have one of those mouths that just needed little care?" And often as an answer we ge...

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 very frequent and often leads to postponing dental care, thus aggravating one's health status, with the need for more complex and expensive therapies. But I have good news for you who are almost struggling to read this post for the squeeze. There is a solution to your problem and it's called IV Sedation! IV sedation is a safe and consolidated technique that allows you to face dental care without pain, anxiety, fear, and stress: in a few words, it eliminates the fear of the dentist. It is a simple and minimally invasive technique, therefore suitable for adults, the elderly and children. It can be combined with any treatment: -Installations -Conservative or caries treatment -Prostheses - Root canal care -Extractions -Gingival therapies -Oral hygiene I guess you're wondering how it works ... The answer is: through the administration in the vein of very small quantities of anxiolytic drugs with a very short ...

Here we will see how to plan the patient's post-surgical feeding, so as to allow an optimal post-operative course and at the same time guarantee high nutritional quality. Nutrition in the patient undergoing oral surgery needs special attention, especially in the days immediately following the operation. The traumatic condition of the post-intervention tissues reduces the chewing ability, furthermore swelling and any mild painful symptoms reduce the oral opening. The mechanical action of chewing can also worry the patient about possible complications such as the detachment of the sutures or the penetration of food residues into the wounds. For every moment of the day, we recommend combinations of optimal foods for the operation just undergone, well balanced from a nutritional point of view, attentive to other existing pathological conditions and to any further needs and preferences of the patient. For post-surgical feeding, in general, we recommend soft, non-acid, non-hot ...

Get ready to greet your mobile dentures! Because with this technique, by us, if you enter with your dentures, you can go out with the fixed teeth! Why did we adopt this solution? Since 2009 we at the Freer Dental Clinic have been considered a reference point for the Health of the Mouth and Smile of all our Patients. Among them, there are people who, due to total or partial loss of teeth, feel discomfort, embarrassment, even social discomfort in wearing a mobile denture. Our task is simply to help them, but what alternatives to dentures? In 2003 Dr. Paulo Malo, founder of the Malo Clinic in Lisbon, invented a new and customized solution aimed at replacing the mobile prosthesis: All on Four / All on Six. Years passed and the All on Four / All on Six were the subject of  s tudies by the dental community that validated them scientifically with numerous publications; dental interventions conducted with success and full satisfaction on the part of patients around the w...