Why Should You Consider Dental Implants Than Dentures / Bridge?

Do you have a missing tooth? If you have had the experience of having missing tooth or more teeth, you may know well what it’s like to live with an unattractive smile, reduced biting efficiency, embarrassment from loose dentures, and pain or difficulty with eating.

Fabricating a bridge to replace the missing teeth usually necessitates trimming down adjacent, sometimes perfectly healthy natural teeth.

Most of our complaint that their dentures giving them problems. Most probably they will complaint about their dentures are bulky, unstable, painful or even hurting their gum, or they cant really bite or speech.

Few months back, an European businessman came to our clinic. He had a missing tooth. I remembered he told me that he came to Singapore for a meeting. At that night, he lost his denture because he was 'too drank". At the end, he decided to have a implant restoration in our clinic.

Dental Implants can support teeth that look very natural and showing your confidence smile. Physically, dental implants allow you to eat and chew. On the other hand, you can speak without any discomfort.

Emergency Dental Case

Saturday morning when i reached clinic was about 9.10am, i received a phone call from the young man. He claimed that he lost his denture when he was drunk. He wants to get a denture "as soon as possible". Well, when i asked him how "soon" is that? He said he need to fly off on Monday morning, so of cause he needs the denture on Saturday. Oh well, we can get something done for him but is not denture. The Dentures typically take 1 week to make. Quickly, he came over to our clinic at about 12pm.

The picture above show that he has a missing tooth.

Closer examindation reveals that the space is not quite sufficient for a central incisor.

Judicious trimming was done on both adjacent teeth. We built a composite bridge for him on the spot.

The composite tooth was held in place by a metal wire at the back. All done in 1 hour. The patient was ready to fly off for his meeting. He'll be returning for his denture and implant surgery.

Your Implant Charges is SO EXPENSIVE!!!

I have something GOOD today! I would like to share with those who needs an implant. Please, is dental implant. NOT BREAST IMPLANT.


First of all, i would like to ask, do you know how much does a dental implant plus crown cost? According to the survey that i got through internet, the average total was about $3,200. Which means that breaks down to $1,800 for the dental implant, $1,400 for the crown, and an additional $600 for a custom abutment.

"Implant fees are too high," complained from our patients.

Do you believe [From a patient management perspective, charging a separate fee for an abutment is much more agreeable to the patient than charging a higher fee for an implant crown]? Please allow me to make a simple comparation our clinic and one of the local dental clinic.

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New Age Cosmetic Dentists (Assistant = A; Patient = P)

P: How much do you charge for an implant?

A: $3000 for one implant.

P: WOW~ That's expensive.

A: Not really madam, because $3000 is for the all. Including the x-ray, implant surgery, medicines, custom abutment and crown.

P: No no no. That is very expensive. Never mind lar... i go to ask around first.

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xxx Dental Clinic (Assistant = A; Patient = P)

P: How much do you charge for an implant?

A: $1500 ++ for implant surgery.

P: Hmmm... that's reasonable price.

A: Yes. We never over charge to our patient.

P: Is there any extra charges?

A: Yes, if required for x-ray, medicines, and specialist like oral surgeon or prosthodontic.

P: Ok, can i fix appointment for the implant surgery.

On the sugery day, before the patient enter to the surgery room, she signed a medisave form which can help her to pay for the partial fees. She was so happy that she no need to pay so much in cash. And the assistant also took one x-ray for her. After she did the surgery. The amount that she needs to pay is $2033.00. The billed items are 1800 for implant surgery, $50 for x-ray and another $50 for medicines, and gst.

While she waiting for the medicines, one of the assistant followed up with her for the next appointment which is remove stitches. $50 for removable stitches. The others followed up would be for review, abutment, and crowning which costs her more than $2000. So, the total is $4033.

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So now, can you tell me which one is more expensive?

[From a patient management perspective, charging a separate fee for an abutment is much more agreeable to the patient than charging a higher fee for an implant crown]

Are You Able To Claim Medisave For Wisdom Tooth Surgery?

Are You Able To Claim Medisave For Wisdom Tooth Surgery?

Medisave have been and will always be our clinic's policy to help our patients claim the maximum amount that MOH and CPF Board allow.
Well, we are not in the position to dictate or even advise our patients on what to do with their own money.
The maximum claimable amounts stipulated by MOH are not meant to cover 100% of the bill. As private practitioners, however, we always try our best to charge and claim in a way that results in no cash payment on the part of our patients.
Nevertheless, this is not always possible. MOH has very rigid guidelines on the maximum claimable amount for a particular type of wisdom tooth condition. At the MOH side, the evaluation is based purely in xrays.

X-rays below shown that the type of wisdom tooth are able to claim by Medisave.



There's quite a number of our patients managed to claimed medisave for their wisdom tooth surgery. 90% of them no need to pay any single for us for the whole process.

Enjoy Your Meal without Tooth Sensitivity

Yesterday i chatted with one of my net friend.

I actually knew him for quite some time, but we dont have much free time to chat to each other.

And finally, yesterday we chit-chating in MSN for about one hour.

I remembered i asked him,

do you take coffee for your breakfast?

Because i like to drink coffee^^

He told me that he dont.

Mmm...

and i was asking him like...

how about your lunch? Or dinner?

What kind of foods that you usually take?

Do you like sweet and sour chicken or fish?

Mmmm...

After a while, he said yes, he likes.

But...

he dont take it.

Sweet and sour chicken?

Woo... seems like it is so delicious and he likes it.

But why he dont take?

I was so curious... but i didnt ask him why.

And he told me that he dont take...

Ice mocca as well...

also

very yummy ice cream???

Yes, he dont!!!

 

But WHY?!?!?!

and finally i got the answer, because he is having problem with his teeth.

 

Well, i told him that there's solutions to solve this problem.

The solution is HE SHOULD VISIT DENTIST AS SOON AS POOSIBLE!

In his case, he might need fillings or desensivities.

De-stressing and Detoxification

Eye Point / Facial Stimulation

In this exercise, by applying the principle of Acu-Pressure, we stimulate the optic nerves and certain muscles around the eye socket as well as some facial muscles. This exercise can help reduce the attendant symptoms of headaches and eyestrain.

Method:

Rub the palms together and when the palms and fingers feel warm, begin stimulating the "eye points" (close to the edge of the socketthroughout) and facial points.

Acu Pressure is applied using the fingers to press and gently "thread" on the points (using smooth curcular / rotational movements) as highlighted in the diagram below.

• Inside corner of the eyebrow
• Middle of the eyebrow
• Outer corner of the eyebrow
• Directly below the centre of the eye
• The hollow part below the cheek bone
• Between the nose and upper lip
• Cup the eyes after rubbing the palms together

From CANCER CARE WITH CHI DYNAMICS, MASTER ANTHONY WEE (Page 24-25)

Removable of Wisdom Tooth Surgery that can claim by Medisave

Wisdom tooth surgery which can claim by medisave.

Due to the age of teenages erupt of wisdom tooth is between the ages of 16 and 21, so it called "the wisdom tooth". Most of the wisdom tooth is impacted and surrounding bone and gums.

Normally your dentist will advice you to remove the wisdom teeth as early as possible. This is to prevent the decay or an infection to happen. Even for the healing part, it is recover faster if comparing to age.

The x-ray above is showing the posing of the wisdom tooth growing.

This is a minor surgical procedure that performed by my dentist. This procedure was performed under local anaesthesia. We will also offered patient to have general anaesthesia if they are very afraid and nervous.

The Happening of Lantern Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival has a history of 2000 years. During these 2000 years lots of Mid-Autumn traditions have been thought up by Chinese people. All the celebrations show the happiness and excitement of people.

The main celebrations during the Mid-Autumn Festival are appreciating the moon, eating moon cakes together and making Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns. These three celebrations have been passed from generation to generation. Chinese people may think the Mid-Autumn Festival is not coming if they don’t do these three things.

Do you want to know what ancient Chinese people said about the festival? I would like to share with you about the legends of Chang'e and Hou Yi and The Jade Rabbit

Chang'e and Hou Yi:
Long long ago, there were 10 suns on the sky. They burnt all the plants on the earth. People were dying.

One day, a hero whose name was Hou Yi used his bow and arrows to shoot down nine of them. All the people on the earth were saved.

One day, the queen of heaven gave Hou Yi a bottle elixir which could make Hou Yi become an immortal but the elixir was only efficacious for one person. Hou Yi did want to become an immortal but he wanted to stay with her beautiful wife Chang'e more, so he didn't drink the elixir and asked his wife Chang'e to keep it for him.

Hou Yi was becoming more and more famous after he shot down the nine suns and more and more men wanted Hou Yi to be their master. Most of them were accepted by Hou Yi.

Not every student of Hou Yi had good morality. Feng Meng, one of his students, wanted to seize his elixir. One day, Hou Yi went hunting with his students but Feng Meng pretended to be ill and stay at home. When making sure Hou Yi had gone he went to Hou Yi's house and tried to force Chang'e to give him the elixir. Chang'e knew she couldn't defeat Feng Meng so she drank the elixir immediately. The elixir made her become an immortal and fly higher and higher. Finally, she stopped on the moon.

From then on, people often pray Chang'e for fortune and safety. Especially on the Mid-Autumn Festival they prepared lots of foods for Chang'e.

The Jade Rabbit

One day, three immortals who were living in the heaven came to the earth. They asked a fox, a monkey and a rabbit to find some food for them respectively. The fox and the monkey both found something for the three immortals while the rabbit got nothing. The rabbit felt very sorry for the three immortals. Finally, he jumped into the fire and said to the three immortals "eat me, please!" the three immortal were deep moved by the rabbit. They decided to entitle the rabbit a reputation of "Jade Rabbit" and let him accompany Chang'e in the Moon Palace.

Appreciating the Moon

Appreciating the moon has been a custom since Tang Dynasty. Not only the rich merchants and officials but also the common citizens liked appreciating the moon together at that time. The rich merchants and officials held big parties in their big courts. They drank and appreciated the bright moon. Music and dances are also indispensable. The common citizens just prayed to the moon for a good harvest.

Nowadays, people also like appreciating the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival. Chinese Family members have dinner together in the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival. After the dinner, they may talk about their work, the children, and their future plans. Sometimes, people go to park to see the decorations which were made only for the Festival.

Moon Cakes

At the end of Yuan Dynasty (a dynasty built by the Mongols), Han people’s army wanted to overthrow the rule of Mongols so they planed an uprising but they had no way to inform every Han people who wanted to join them the time of the uprising without being discovered by the Mongols. One day, the military counselor of Han people’s army Liu Bowen thought out a stratagem related to moon cakes. On one hand, Liu Bowen asked his soldiers to spread the rumor that there would be a serious disease in winter and eating moon cakes was the only way to cure the disease; on the other hand, he asked soldiers to write "uprising, at the night of Mid-autumn Festival" on papers and put them into moon cakes then sell them to common Han people. When the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival came the huge uprising broke out. From then on, people eat moon cakes on every Mid-Autumn Festival to commemorate the uprising.

Nowadays, people also like appreciating the moon on Autumn Moon Festival. Family members have dinner together in the evening of the Festival.

  

Making Chinese Mid-Autumn Lanterns

 

 

Mid-Autumn lanterns are not as colorful as the ones in  Lantern Festival. There is no big lantern party during Mid-Autumn Festival but the children like making colorful lanterns very much. They make lanterns of different shapes and let them float on the rivers. They won’t leave the riversides until the light of the lanterns disappears. Sometimes, they make the Hung Ming lantern which can fly because the burning candles heat the air in the lantern. The lantern rises with the heated air.