Costa Rica Dental Experiences

"Prosthetic teeth should not be cleaned because they cannot decay."   Is this information correct? What are the main precautions to be observed for cleaning the prosthesis on implants? Let's find out together. Crowns on implants: what are them? With dental implants, it is possible to replace single teeth or make bridges or larger structures that can replace all the elements of the entire dental arch with fixed devices (which the patient cannot remove) or mobile. Whether the tooth is replaced by just one or all, cleaning the prosthesis and, more generally, correct oral hygiene is one of the daily activities essential for safeguarding the health of a dental implant. Denture cleaning on implants: why not neglect it? - Many patients wonder what sense to have in brushing their false teeth since they cannot decay. The reason must be found at the level of tissues that support the implants, namely bone and gingiva. These in fact, if they are not treated, can undergo...

The connotations of being past the year 2020 bring about thoughts of futuristic concepts as suggested by movies, the Internet, and a vast array of media.  Movies and books, set in a time period only a few decades forward, have portrayed a life filled with advanced medicine, travel, engineering, manufacturing, and even rapid and simple food production. Yet, when we reach that future date, we observe that technology doesn’t change as fast as our minds imagine. Does dentistry today — often termed “digital dentistry” — represent the high-tech, easy-to-implement solutions that were imagined and written about 30 years ago or even last year? Clinicians with decades of experience or the student of dental history can look back at the advances in dentistry and state clearly that the dental profession has experienced an exciting amount of technological growth. Yet in comparison to medicine, biomedical engineering, automotive and aeronautics, rapid manufacturing, electron...

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...