Implant Site Preservation - A Key to Implant Success

If you are in need of a tooth extraction and you plan on completing your restoration with a dental implant, implant site preservation is essential for a successful implant placement procedure.  Implant site preservation ensures that the site of your future implant remains in an ideal state with minimal bone changes, thereby ensuring your implant cylinder can be placed with ease, the healing process is efficient, and your implant remains stable and secure for many years.

Here at Oral Surgery Consultants of Pennsylvania, we’ve helped many Philadelphia patients with implant site preservation and dental implant placement.  For complete information on oral surgery and implant services available through us, visit our site and contact us directly.

IV Sedation

IV sedation is an effective and safe dental resource.  Through sedation services we help patients feel relaxed and comforted throughout their procedure. Although sedation can be administered through various methods, IV sedation is both fast acting and easy to control. Also called “Twilight Sedation”, IV sedation is introduced intravenously and can be adjusted according to patient needs.

 

Through IV sedation, you’ll experience your procedure as a pleasant rest.  You’ll likely have little to no memory of the process and feel no discomfort. Since IV sedation is so safe and effective, some patients can even undergo multiple procedures during one sedation session.

 

For more information IV sedation and other forms of sedation dentistry, please visit our website or contact us directly here at Oral Surgery Consultants of Pennsylvania.

Oral Cancer

We understandably don’t like to think or talk about cancer, but confronting this serious issue is imperative to good health practices.  In the dental health community, we are especially concerned with our patients’ understanding oforal cancer and all necessary screening and preventative measures. Like other forms of cancer, oral cancer can be extremely costly and difficult to fight once it has progressed; but also like other cancers, when it’s diagnosed early, patients greatly improve their prospects for a full recovery.  

 

Since there are a number of behaviors and lifestyle factors that can increase the risk of oral cancer, patients should be aware of the following factors and get a screening if any apply to them:

• Patients over fifty who use any tobacco products, drink frequently or heavily, and/or have a history of oral cancer in their family.
• Patients who have been infected with HPV.
• Patients who regularly experience sores or pain in the oral cavity, especially if due to damaged teeth or past dental work.
• All patients over eighty.