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L-PRF: Leukocytic Platelet Rich Fibrin – A New Frontier for Dentistry
Modern day alchemy has been used to describe the bone and tissue banks of the world today. You remember alchemy, trying to turn something like lead into gold? The bone/tissue banks don’t pay for...
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Veinlite: Dentists can now draw blood with confidence.
There’s no one in the world better at giving injections than a dentist, but ask one to draw a patient’s blood, and fear grips them like getting a tooth taken out. It is not that it is hard to draw...
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Metronidazole: Protecting your Bone Grafts
August 20-22, 2009 I went to the International Congress of Oral Implantologist annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada to get my Fellowship, and there I listened to many hours of lectures. One of the...
View ArticleFree Head and Neck Oral Cancer Screening
Free Head and Neck Oral Cancer Screening: Patient Info Our office has joined the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance (formerly known as the Yul Brynner Head and Neck Cancer Foundation). We offer free Head...
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Oral Cancer Screening: A Dental Exam Can Save Your Life
Oral cancer screenings at our office have been routine for the past 20 years, and I am continually amazed that new patients will come into our practice and ask, “What are you doing that for?” The...
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Periodontal Disease: Dangerous to Your Health
The World Health Organization reports that 85% of the USA population has some kind of periodontal disease. A small portion is due to genetics, but most is contributed to ineffective oral hygiene and a...
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External Resorption Treatment: Dental Implant Case Study
This is a case report of a 38 y/o female that noticed a reddish pink hue coming through her tooth and decided to have it examined. Her dentist referred her to an oral surgeon for a tooth extraction,...
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Scaling and Root Planning
In Cape Coral, Florida we have over 400 miles of waterfront property and everyone here has a dock or lives across the street from one. So when I tell my patients that scaling and root planing their...
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Salivary Gland Stone: Sialolith
One of the most common salivary gland stones is the submandibular gland’s duct sialolith. This is a case study of a recent patient who came in with such a stone. This 24 year old white female presented...
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Sinusitis and the Dental Office
Practically every week of the year at Cape Dental Care we will have someone come in with a toothache that ends up being diagnosed sinusitis. Their symptoms include: Sore upper posterior teeth...
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