The past 20 years have witnessed many interesting innovations in dentistry. And dental implants were really interesting as they completely eliminated the need for painful and expensive dental bridges and the cutting of perfectly healthy teeth as support. Dental implants were also very effective in replacing one single teeth as well as conserving the loss of bone after a tooth extraction. But the main drawback of this technique was the frequent visits spanning months and the painful surgeries required every time for placing the implants.

But now Dr. Jan Linhart and his educated colleagues have developed a revolutionary technique in which implants can be placed immediately and in a single visit. If the periodontal condition is good then Dr Jon and his colleagues Dr. Bobby Gahlili have managed to get implants done immediately and send the patient home with the crown already in place. If a hole is not available for the dental implantation, they will drill a hole to place a titanium implant and build up surrounding bone with bone implants to get Osseo-integration.

But the process has not yet been scientifically accepted as most London dentists agree that sufficient bone growth to stabilize the implant takes atleast two weeks and one visit implants may need additional research.

Holistic dentistry is a field of dentistry dealing with integrating the mind, body and spirit in to the field of dentistry. Conventional dentistry deals only with the teeth and how to treat existing diseases. But holistic or alternative dentistry has several principles like
• The physical and mental state is very important and it plays an important role in influencing dental health. The opposite is also true with dental ill health influencing the whole body in general.
• It supposes that dental disease can be a side effect of other bodily ailments.
• Diet is very important in influencing dental health.
• Nutritional curing as well as a good diet is integral to a complete healing approach to dentistry.
• Additional dietary help can be obtained by vitamins, minerals, herbs and food supplements.
There’s really no proof supporting holistic dentistry over conventional dentistry but anything which advocates maintaining overall good health can’t be completely bad, right? And quite a few views of holistic dentistry ridiculed by conventional medicine have now proved to be true. For example, The FDA has recently upheld a ruling that mercury can be responsible for whole lot of chronic health problems and has advised dentists to discontinue use of the material. Holistic London dentistry has been long advocating removal of old mercury fillings and replacing them with newer white colored fillings. Initially, this was ridiculed as an underhanded method of making money. But I guess they have been proved right!

As dentistry gets more and more high tech, it’s not sufficient to just be updated with the newer and better appliances which are in the market. London consumers have become much more aware of what quality dental care entails and you have to make sure your practice is better and modernized regularly. A few of the newer and better inventions to hit the market include,
1. MagnaVu promoted by Magnified Video Dentistry. A really great innovation which houses a microscope, an intra oral camera, a digital camera, as well as a monitor in the same mounted appliance. Really great for the posture but a little on the expensive side.
2. The latest in intra oral cameras for those who like to record their work as well as for clinical presentations is Imagin Hot Rod which is really detailed with the best image value and the most versions which can fit into any operatory. You can choose from the desk mount, as well as a whole variety of hand pieces for best quality intra oral, and full face pictures. You even get optional memory cartridges with the camera.
3. DentForms are really great optional software for completely paper less practices. Most Practice management software’s require paper work to be scanned into the system but this manages to bridge the problem with a really great inexpensive signature pad by which you can digitally record signatures and store the documents into your software on your computer.