Posts Tagged ‘ dental implant ’

How To Keep Your Mouth Clean After Oral Surgery

How to Clean Your Mouth After Wisdom Teeth Removal  Keeping your mouth clean after oral surgery protects your healing tissue and supports a smoother recovery. Good habits, done the right way, help lower your risk of infection and complications like dry socket.  Dr. Geisler recommends avoiding all oral hygiene, including brushing, rinsing, and spitting, for the first twenty […]

How Not to Be Anxious Completing Oral Hygiene after Oral Surgery. You’ve Got This!

One of the most frequent questions we receive at Geisler OMS is how to keep the mouth clean after extraction of wisdom teeth, placement of dental implants or bone grafting. Many of our patients worry that they might disrupt healing or cause a dry socket by performing oral hygiene. This can cause a great deal of worry for some patients. Here are […]

How To Care For Your New 3D Printed Dental Implant

Photo by Amir Seilsepour 3D Printed Dental Implants Congratulations, you have just had a 3D printed dental implant placed! If you are wondering how to take care of your new tooth, you are in the right place! 3D printing technology allows for a titanium dental implant, which is like the root of a tooth, to […]

What Makes A Dental Implant Successful?

My new patient looked at me expectantly. “My best friend, who is a dentist, told me to come to you for my dental implant. My dentist said that she would pick you to place her implant, so here I am!” For my new patient, deciding who to have place her dental implant out of all […]

The Amazing Platelet

Did you know that you have a special cell within your blood that has amazing regenerative ability? It’s called a platelet and it has the ability to promote bone and soft tissue healing in the body. Platelets have hundreds of growth factors that encourage the body to produce new tissue. In the mouth, the ability […]

Our Golden Rule

  It’s easy to imagine the discomfort of walking into a new healthcare provider’s office. You may have a referral. You may be walking in blindly, trusting you receive the proper care you think you need. You’re afraid because you don’t know what to expect. You’re apprehensive because it’s an unfamiliar environment. Perhaps you have […]

What Makes an Expert Dental Implant Surgeon?

  It seems everyone these days is calling themselves an expert at dental implant surgery. Some dentists take a short course in order to learn how to place dental implants in a few months (or weeks) of training. Others learn how to place dental implants during a specialty training program yet do not have hospital […]