Archive for November 2011

As oral surgeons, we are often confronted with many questions about dental implant therapy. The majority of these questions relate to how much will a dental implant cost and is the procedure associated with pain. These questions may be the most common but, are they the best questions to ask when learning about this dental…

Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a dental specialty. To become an oral surgeon, a clinician must first attend dental school and pass the requisite dental board examination. Post-doctoral training in oral surgery, however, is generally linked to the hospital setting. It is this hospital based training that has greatly expanded the scope of our specialty.…