Burbank Dental Implant Specialist: Review of Immediate Dental Implant Considerations
Immediate dental implants are those that are placed at the same time the tooth is extracted. In my Burbank dental office, I have been placing immediate implants for the last eleven years.
Typically immediate implants can be done for almost any tooth from the middle bicuspid area forward. I also place immediate implants into the molar areas when the situation is just right. This can save you money and time if the dental implants can be placed at the same time the teeth are extracted.
The bone of the extraction socket needs to be mostly intact with bone around. Often times the thin outer wall of bone is lost due to infection or inflammation.
Christmas is coming to SHA Wellness Clinic
SHA Wellness Clinic has been a unique spot for expecting couples for several years.
Google Earth Helps Locate Salmonella Hotspots
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme in Vietnam and the Oxford University Clinical Research Units in Nepal and Vietnam have put Google Earth to good use once again. By using DNA sequencing technology and GPS, they have created a way to map typhoid outbreaks in Kathmandu, Nepal. They published their research in journal Open Biology.
It is extremely difficult to study how typhoid-causing bacteria, Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi, evolve and spread at local level.
Inverted ‘V’ osteotomy excision arthroplasty for bony ankylosed elbows
Published: 5 December 2011
Background
Bony ankylosis of elbow is challenging and difficult problem to treat. The options are excision arthroplasty and total elbow replacement. We report our midterm results on nine patients, who underwent inverted ‘V’ osteotomy excision arthroplasty in our hospital with good functional results. Materials: Our case series includes 9 patients (seven males and two females) with the mean age of 34 years (13-56 years). Five patients had trauma, two had pyogenic arthritis, one had tuberculous arthritis, and one had pyogenic arthritis following surgical fixation.
Results
The average duration of follow up is 65 months (45 months-80 months).