How to Restore a Youthful Smile

Your smile has the power to make you look years younger, or years older, all depending on the condition of your teeth. If missing teeth or wobbling dentures are keeping you from smiling with confidence, it’s time to give yourself the gift of a permanent smile.

Besides the cosmetic benefits, good periodontal health is directly linked to overall good health. Periodontal disease, commonly known as gum disease, can affect the state of your entire body. Recent studies show a definite link between your oral health and your general health, including heart disease and diabetes.

Fortunately, a great, younger-looking smile, and all the health benefits that come with it, can be yours with treatments that are faster, easier and more affordable than ever before.

If you’ve lost teeth already or are just beginning to lose teeth, you may be an ideal candidate for dental implants. Thousands of dental implants have been performed since 1985 in my practice, which is the practice that pioneered Long Island’s first Teeth in an Hour.

Teeth in an Hour, the latest in high-tech dentistry, utilizes sophisticated 3-D radiology that creates precise imaging of a patient’s jaw. Robotic technology fabricates the permanent restoration, which is placed with the Branemark System Implants – all in one hour.

Your life and your smile can be transformed by this immediate-load, immediate-function, immediate-smile procedure. It utilizes the new Nobel Guide for computer-guided, minimally-invasive, flapless, pain-free implant surgery.

The Nobel Guide enables the pre-planned treatment via 3-D computerized imaging to be transformed into clinical reality, utilizing a customized surgical template. Dental implants are precisely positioned with the Nobel Guide. The surgical treatment is based on guided keyhole surgery that is minimally invasive without flaps or sutures. This greatly reduces discomfort and swelling, as compared to conventional treatment.

Patients can immediately return to work and social life after the treatment, since the concept is built on immediate function. For many patients this means a considerable cost savings. The combination of immediate function and the fact that the final restoration is ready at the time of surgery radically shortens the treatment time, producing teeth in an hour.

ARE YOU A CANDIDATE FOR DENTAL IMPLANTS?

Have you lost one or more teeth?

Are you fed up with your partial denture or overdenture?

Have you lost bone in the area of a tooth extraction?

Are you considering a dental restoration with bridgework but concerned about preserving the integrity of the adjacent teeth?

Dr. Howard A. Popper is a life-long New Yorker. He is a member of numerous dental organizations, including the American Academy of Periodontology, the Academy of Osseointegration, the Northeastern Society of Periodontists, the American Dental Association, New York State Dental Association, and the Suffolk County Dental Society. For more than thirty years he was the program chairman of the Western Suffolk Dental Study Club, providing hundreds of hours of continuing dental education for local dentists. He has lectured both locally and nationally. Dr. Popper has been practicing Periodontics since 1973, with offices in Melville and Port Jefferson Station in Suffolk County.

In 1985, Dr. Popper received his Branemark Training Certificate, which was the first U.S. dental implant course.He has placed thousands of dental implants since then.

Dr. Popper has published articles in the International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry, the Journal of Periodontology, and the Annals of Dentistry, in the areas of Implant Dentistry, Periodontal Surgery, and Oral Medicine.In 2004, he received the much coveted 25 year certificate as a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology.

He is one of the pioneers of the Immediate Load Procedure where the dental implants and teeth are placed in one day, including the new All-On-Four procedure. Most of the implant treatment is done with a flapless, minimally invasive approach. The vast majority of his patients are treated in conjunction with Board Certified medical or dental anesthesiologists, providing intravenous conscious sedation, so that the patients are monitored in a safe and comfortable environment. All of the procedures are done in a state-of-the-art surgical suite in his office.

For more information, call Dr. Howard A. Popper’s Melville office at (631) 385-9400, Port Jefferson Station at (631) 928-5850, or visit www.incredibleimplants.com