Clinical Focus: Comprehensive Implant Dentistry

Despite tremendous progress in prevention, some patients still loose teeth due to disease and trauma. As a result, life’s simple pleasures that were once taken for granted could cause problems and pain.

A dental implant is a surgical technique that replaces root and crown, the components of a missing tooth. The implants are small titanium cylinders, similar to natural roots, which once inserted into the bone they grow together within a few months (osseointegration), becoming a stable supporting element for a dental prostheses (i.e., crown).

Dr. E Esther Lopez is a well-known and trusted pioneer in the field of dental implantology. Her experience with dental implants began in 1990, when the number of dentists in San Francisco able to offer this advanced technique were quite limited. Her multi-disciplinary focus allowed her to accumulate a vast experience collaborating with the leading periodontists and oral surgeons that pioneered advances and innovation in the field.

The multi-disciplinary approach followed by Dr. Lopez is ideally suited for implants, where a prior surgical, periodontal, and prosthodontic consultation is done to address:

• soft-tissue management
• surgical sequence
• healing time need for ridge and soft-tissue augmentation

Dr. Lopez will coordinate your care to ensure that the recipient site would have adequate soft tissue and bone prior to implant placement, and that the treatment plan would allow adequate time for bone integration. Once those phases are completed, her kind and gentle restoration skills will complete the treatment for optimal results.