There are five to six million automobile accidents reported in the United States every year, from parking lot fender-benders to far more serious crashes. They are a leading cause of facial trauma, which can be devastating to those who suffer them. But there is hope, with the team of surgeons available at our San Francisco…
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Categories: Dental Implants, Sedation
Dental implants are one of the most common procedures performed at Bay Area Surgical Arts. Whether they are scheduled at our Cupertino or San Francisco office, most of our procedure are done in a hospital-style operating suite, with the patient under IV sedation. While dental implants have become routine, they still involve surgically placing a…
Robotics and Dental Implant Surgery
At our practices we have been providing dental implants for over 10 years. We have also been at the forefront of developing new technologies, in order to provide each of our patients the best possible services with the best possible outcomes. In our Cupertino location, we are now pleased to offer YOMI, the first robot…
Sinus Lifts and Dental Implants
If you have dentures or a missing tooth that was extracted many years ego, dental implants can be transformative in many ways. Dental implants are designed to replace and function just like a natural tooth. But before you can get a dental implant, it is essential that you have enough bone to act as the…
Caring For a Dental Implant
Dental implants look and function like natural teeth. That’s what makes them so effective and desirable as the most optimal replacement option for missing teeth. But when it comes to caring for them, they are somewhat different than natural teeth. So how is caring for implants any different? Before we answer that, a definition may…
All About Jaw Fractures
Your jawbone is the biggest bone in the lower part of your face and it is commonly broken during facial trauma, with only noses getting broken more often. The lower jaw is medically referred to as the “mandible”, which acts as the foundation for your teeth. Your teeth sit in the “Alveolar bone” which is…
Great Advances: All on 4 Dental Implants
Dental implants have been called one of the greatest advances in dentistry. They are titanium posts that are inserted into the jaw to provide support for an artificial tooth. They basically act like a root of a tooth. Out of all the other options for replacing missing teeth, dental implants get as close to a…
After the Implant: Post-Operative Instructions
Your new dental implants are going to improve your life, possibly in ways you cannot imagine. But first you need to recover from the titanium post implanted in your jaw before you can fully take advantage of it. In general it takes about 3 to 6 months and even longer for implants to become…
Impacted and Extracted: Wisdom Teeth in San Francisco
Wisdom teeth don’t have much to do with wisdom. If they did, we probably wouldn’t extract so many. But in San Francisco and Cupertino, we do extract a lot of them – sometimes for prevention, and other times because they have become impacted. Wisdom teeth are the third set of molars, also known as the “third…
So Many Problems: Wisdom Teeth in San Francisco
Third molars, otherwise known as “wisdom teeth” usually erupt during the late teens or early twenties. At both of our locations in San Francisco and Cupertino, we extract a lot of wisdom teeth. Although most people have four wisdom teeth, there are some that may have more or less depending on their genetics. Why…
