Taking the Right Preparatory Steps to Ensure Dental Implant Success

Springfield residents looking to replace missing teeth with dental implants should rest assured that this advanced tooth replacement system has a very high success rate – upwards of 90%. However, there are situations in which dental implants do fail. To make sure you’re not in this unfortunate minority, here’s a list of steps that local periodontist and dental implant dentist, Dr. Cross, recommends you take....

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For Your Health, Have an Examination by a Periodontist

For as long as you can remember, you’ve likely been familiar with the recommended treatment for oral health care: brush your teeth twice daily, floss your teeth every night, and visit your dentist every 6 months for a cleaning and check-up. Some of you follow this recommended treatment to a “T.” For others, life may get in the way, and you don’t always do the...

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