Dental Implant Articles
21 articles by Dr. O
These articles compare ceramic and titanium implants, explain why teeth and implants fail, and walk through options for replacing infected root canal teeth.
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July 18, 2022
Should I Treat My Root Canal Infection or Extract my Tooth?
No one wants to lose a tooth. This is very natural and normal. Thanks to the advent of Photon Induced Photoacoustic streaming (PIPS), a technology lic...
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April 30, 2022
What To Do About Old Root Canal Infections – A Case Study
For those of you who were told that your root canal should last a lifetime, this has not been my experience. The fact is root canals fail and they usu...
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March 7, 2022
Finally, An Integrative Dentist’s Opinion on Root Canals: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
My book on root canal infections that are hidden and not being seen by your dentist is coming out in 2018. It delves into this issue of infected root ...
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January 19, 2020
What Causes Root Canal Infections and Failure?
What causes existing root canals to become infected and fail? In the photo to the right you can see a common presentation of an infected tooth. In thi...
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July 19, 2018
Inflammation May Cause Failure in Extractions, Root Canals and Implants: A Case Study
Have you put off doing the dental work you need because you are afraid it might fail? You may have had the right idea! Have you heard that all root ca...
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July 5, 2018
Root Canal vs Extraction: Are Root Canals Toxic to My Body? A Review of Weston Price’s Research 100 years later
Did Dr. Price have it right when he put out his research on infected root canals and the focal infection theory nearly 100 years ago? Over the next fe...
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May 23, 2018
How to Resolve a Root Canal Infection – A Pardigm Shift
A lot of patients come to me seeking help in trying to resolve root canal infections. The problem is that the basic protocol for treating root canals ...
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February 6, 2018
What is Holistic Dentistry and What Makes It Different?
Holistic dentistry and biological dentistry refer to two different aspects of integrative dental care. Generally speaking the term ‘holistic’ refers t...
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December 22, 2017
What You Need to Know About Ceramic vs Titanium Dental Implants
When I lecture on holistic dentistry, I’m often asked, ‘What are ceramic dental implants?’ As you can see in the picture to the right, ceramic implant...
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September 4, 2017
Bio-Friendly, Non Metal Fillings
What do health conscious people need to know about non metal fillings like composites? Here is a quick rundown: Whenever possible avoid metal (especia...
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April 14, 2017
Implant Meetings Showing Titanium Implant Failures – What You Need to Know
Whenever I go to an implant meeting these days a lot of what’s being discussed is titanium implant failures and what to do about them. I went to two h...
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August 29, 2016
5 Additional Things to Consider Before Getting an Implant
1- What are the most common reasons for a tooth or an implant to fail? The same factors that cause you to lose a tooth may cause you to lose an implan...
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