How to choose a surgeon for corrective jaw surgery
on May 25, 2015
Whose territory is it? "Turf fights" are common between different specialties in Medicine and Dentistry. The jaw and face (ie maxillo-facial) area is one part of the body that many different specialties lay claim to. As the name suggests, the one who are most intimately associated wit …
How long does a dental implant lasts?
on May 19, 2015
How long can it last? This is a common question during a consultation on dental implant treatment. Some are actually thinking of a "warranty period" while others may be thinking of "return on investment (of time, money and suffering)". When I first started private practice twenty year …
Risks of cosmetic jaw surgery in Singapore
on May 13, 2015
What are risks? Twenty odd years ago, a very good friend of mine was taking his oral examination in the Royal College of Surgeons for his Fellowship. He was being grilled by the examiners about the risks involved in a certain surgical procedure on a certain part of the brain (microvas …
Types of jaw deformities in Singapore
on May 9, 2015
The K-pop tsunami... Last year, I accompanied my son to the Asian Games in Incheon, Korea, where he represented Singapore in fencing. He stayed in the Games Village together with the rest of Team Singapore while my wife and I booked a hotel which we thought was closeby. As it turned o …
Complications of Dental Implants in Singapore
on May 7, 2015
What's a complication? This morning, a doctor friend contacted me about a complication with her dental implant done by her dentist, who is also a mutual friend. Yes, Singapore is a small country and everybody knows everybody, especially if you grew up here. Then it dawned on me that I …
Choosing the right dentist for dental implants in Singapore
on May 5, 2015
Life before Google.... Today, I was having lunch with an old colleague and he told me this story which is both amusing and sad. A few years ago, he referred a patient of his to an oncologist, let's call him Oncologist A. The patient had some vague symptoms but nothing specific but wan …
Financing dental implants in Singapore
on May 2, 2015
Dental implants are arguably the best thing that happened to Dentistry in the last fifty years. Wrong, I take that back. The discovery of osseointegration is the best thing that happened to Dentistry. What's osseointegration? It is the process of bone healing that integrates with tita …
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