What is Dental Insurance For?

        Dental insurance isn’t medical insurance. If you are lucky to have dental insurance, it’s more like having a coupon for general services like cleanings and fillings. Yes, there are dental insurance companies who cover dental implants, but they want to dictate the coverage and this isn’t the answer. Cost of dental implants over your lifetime is minimal, and many dentists offer financing and there are banks that offer those zero interest credit cards for a year.

        Now, dental implants don’t decay, don’t get periodontal disease and they aren’t temporary. They give you your quality of life back and dentures are not considered standard of care. Dentures and partials force you to change your diet and nutrition, because you have lost the ability to chew the foods you have enjoyed all your life. When you lose a tooth or teeth, the bone in your jaw is no longer needed to support a tooth, so it melts away over time and you start looking older than you really are. Replacing your teeth with dental implants helps maintain your bone in your jaw and keep you from looking older and not having that sunken-in look. If you are missing a tooth, “Why would you want to grind down your adjacent teeth on each side and create a three tooth problem with a three-unit bridge, when you only had a one tooth problem in the first place?”

         As for fees, the cost of implants varies depending on where you live. An All-on-4 procedure with 10 to 12 teeth and 4 implants, upper or lower fixed bridge completely restored cost on average 20K. Be carefull not to get fooled by mini dental implants, they aren’t meant to be permanent and will cost you more in the long haul.

        Dental implants give you your confidence back in social activities and your significant other will apprieciate your smile.

       Root Canals are generally a temporary solution and your tooth may be better off replaced with a dental implant and a crown. This is a decision between you and your General Dentist.

      Take the time to get a good comprehensive treatment plan and if you get a second and third opinion. Remember, anyone can lower a fee, but that doesn’t mean you are getting the same comprehensive treatment plan. An experienced Oral Surgeon or Periodontist is your best place to start after seeing your General Dentist.

Nobel Biocare on iTunes U

Nobel Biocare Educational Video's


Nobel Biocare offers, as the only company in the dental field, a suite of free training and educational material to its customers, the dental community and students on its new site on iTunes U.

Training & Education is one of Nobel Biocare’s main strengths. One of the key trends in education on which Nobel Biocare wants to continue to build its reputation is the rapid development of e-learning. Located in the "Beyond Campus" section of iTunes U, Nobel Biocare’s online Training & Education program provides easy, state-of-the-art on-demand e-learning. Users can search and download training and education material directly from the site, and then use it on their Mac or PC, or sync with iPod or iPhone to learn anywhere, anytime.

 
Once you have installed iTunes you can access Nobel Biocare’s page from the link www.nobelbiocare.com/itunes via any web browser.

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My Dental Hub

My Dental Hub is an innovative dental patient education software program that allows you to create customized patient education of the highest quality that you print in your own office.

With stunning graphics, industry leading animations and easy to understand text, My Dental Hub Practice Growth software is a powerful marketing tool designed to educate your patients and increase treatment acceptance. This dental software package provides high quality graphics, 3D animations and clinical images that can be used for both on-screen presentations and professionally designed, printed take-home information for your patients.

Available in both an online and offline version (Click&Print), choose the version that best suites your practice.

My Dental Hub on YouTube

XCPT's Patient Engagement System

XCPT is dedicated to enhancing the doctor-patient relationship through the use of its leading edge dental software. XCPT's Patient Engagement System provides eye-catching visuals of proposed treatment such as crowns, bridges, and implants on the patient's x-rays, CT scans, or photos. Our software saves time, reduces paperwork, streamlines workflow in the office and allows patients to grasp treatment concepts quickly and intuitively. Utilize the visual communication power of XCPT in your dental relationships and see tighter connections with your patients, colleagues and your staff....

Learn more at PracticePerks.com about how you can get XCPT

From Dental Crowns to Implants

Great information on dental implants

A Dental Shift: Implants Instead of Bridges

NobelActive Dental Implant

NobelActive™
a new direction for implants


NobelActive™ has been launched following scientific research and pre-launch experience. It is recommended for experienced users who want to take full advantage of the following abilities:

* High initial stability, even in compromised bone situations
* Bone condensing property
* Redirecting capability for optimal placement
* Built-in Platform Shifting
* Dual-function prosthetic connection

Video Content:

YouTube NobelActive video's

NobelActive Surgical Video at Nobel Biocare

Why should I have an All Ceramic Dental Crown?

Traditional crowns are made with a metal sub-structure and then porcelain is placed on by a dental lab technician. The metal under the crown can cause irritation to the gum around the crown, the porcelain doesn't look natural like your real teeth because the metal doesn't let light in and the margin around the crown can show through your gums. Technology in dentistry today, lets you as a patient choose to have a ceramic porcelain zirconium, zirconia crown or bridge. The advantages of an all ceramic crown is the material is biocompatible friendly to your body, there is no dark line to worry about showing through your gums and the all ceramic tooth looks natural to your teeth. Light reflexs naturally through the ceramic and gives you a nice life like appearance.

Be careful to not get confused with dental office's offering in house milling machines that grind out a one shade zirconium or zirconia crown. These machines make a nice crown, but if you look in the mirror at your teeth, our teeth aren't just one shade. It takes a dental lab technician layering porcelain on your crown to make it look like your teeth. Fast isn't always best and a nice zirconium or zirconia crown made specific for you is well worth the wait.

To find a Procera Dentist in your area please go to NobelSmile.Com

Learn more about zirconium crowns at Nobel Biocare Procera