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…
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Eating After Wisdom Tooth Extraction
When it comes to getting your wisdom teeth pulled, you may be stressing about the long list of foods you can’t eat. Don’t worry – you won’t starve! We want your recovery to be as quick and painless as possible, so keep reading for an easy-to-follow guide to eating after your wisdom tooth removal! DONT’S…
PRP… PRGF….What’s that?
For years now I have been utilizing PRP and PRGF to help speed up patient’s healing. We clearly see less bruising and swelling after surgery, with most patients stating that they have less pain than expected. This method is especially useful for patients with cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy or for those female patients that…
Pediatric Facial Trauma
We’ve all had our share of trips, bumps, and even broken bones in our childhood years! (If you haven’t, then you’re very lucky!) As the saying goes, children are very resilient, and this is actually due to their biology. Children have “bendy bones” which are more likely to bend and crack under pressure rather than…
Dry socket anyone?
Dry socket! The most dreaded thing that most patients ask me during the consultation. Everyone seemingly knows about dry socket. What is dry socket? Well, its really the inflammation of the bone in the extraction site, the bone that used to support the extracted tooth. Typically when a tooth is extracted, a blood clot…
What’s the Medical Evidence that Supports Marijuana Use for Medical Indications?
In the most recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) these authors performed a review of the 79 studies that involved 6462 patients. Conclusions: Moderate-quality evidence that cannabinoid use might benefit patients with chronic pain or muscle spasticity Low-quality evidence that marijuana use prevents nausea and vomiting secondary to cancer chemotherapy, leads to…
Beards and oral cancer!
Beards can be deceiving! As you all know this month is Oral Cancer Awareness month. Thankfully one of my many great patients has volunteered himself, as a cancer patient, to highlight the importance of routine oral cancer screenings. All we know beards are now somewhat of a fashion statement…but they can sometimes also be deadly. Unfortunately…
Will extracting my third molars help my other teeth?
This is a typical question from patients during our consultation. Patients are usually referred to my office by their general dentist for a consultation in regards to their impacted or symptomatic third molars. Understandably, most patient are scared and a bit skeptical when they first present to our office for surgery. Surgery is scary thing…
Extraction of wisdom teeth with just “infiltration”?
Categories: Pain, Wisdom Teeth
Recently at University of Pacific (UOP), one of my dental students brought up the topic of “infiltration” versus “nerve blocks” for the extraction of teeth – more specifically 3rd molars. Wondering why are we still providing IAN (Inferior Alveolar Nerve) nerve blocks in the lower jaw…
Why are we one of the few accredited centers in the USA using BTI PRGF technology?
At both our office locations in San Francisco and Cupertino we have been using a novel, new technique to improve the healing of our patient using PRGF. What is PRGF? Well, it is better known as “plasma rich in growth factors”, a technology that allows the use of the patients own blood with extraordinary results, effectively regenerating…
