Cost of Dental Care in Singapore
on September 15, 2019
I was preparing a treatment plan for a patient last night when a Whatsapp message from a colleague came in. He forwarded me a post for Malaymail.com entitled “Why Johor Dentists can expect even more Singapore patients than over before”. And another on Channel News Asia Facebook with a …
Dental implants in an underbite patient
on July 20, 2019
Rising affluence and awareness among patients in Singapore have led to an increase in demand for specialist procedures such as orthognathic surgery. Underbite deformity, where the lower jaw is disproportionately longer than the upper jaw is possibly the most corrected dentofacial defo …
Missing Teeth and Jaw Deformity in the older patient
on July 16, 2019
Most dental implants patients are usually older adults who have lost some or all dentition over the course of many years. On the other hand, corrective jaw surgery patients tend to be younger, those in their late teens and twenties. However, there is a group of patients who have dento …
Implant Dentistry; General Dentist or Specialist?
on May 29, 2019
There has been much debate in recent weeks within the dental profession about the competency of dentists to do certain procedures. The issue has attracted a lively debate amongst various dental organizations. The Ministry of Health and the Singapore Dental Council has begun seeking fe …
Cheapest dental implant in Singapore
on September 26, 2017
Cost is probably one of the biggest factor when a patient considers having dental implants. Indeed implant dentistry is arguably the most expensive dental procedure. However, it is also fast becoming the treatment option of choice amongst most patients who lose their teeth. What was o …
Dental implants vs root canal treatment
on August 30, 2017
Dentists are taught to save teeth. Cavities in teeth are caused by bacteria eroding away the enamel and dentine. At this stage, the decayed portion of the tooth can be drilled away and the resultant defect filled with an inert material such as amalgam or increasingly, tooth colored co …
What qualification to look for in a dentist for dental implants?
on April 3, 2017
There are about 2000 dentists in Singapore and the majority does not provide dental implant services. This is because of the relative novelty of implant dentistry, becoming mainstream only in the last twenty years or so, and that most dental schools do not teach it as part of its core …
Bringing down the cost of dental implants
on March 27, 2017
A few days ago, I attended a seminar conducted by the Economics Society of Singapore on the “Contentious issues in Healthcare”. Naturally, rising healthcare cost is a hot topic. Economists look at big picture numbers such as GDP often treat the delivery of healthcare as a single entit …
Why is the cost of dental implants in Singapore so high?
on February 3, 2017
Dental implant treatment is arguably the most expensive treatment in dentistry. Over the years, the feedback that I got from patients included descriptions such as “more expensive than open heart surgery” and “stuffing a BMW into the mouth”. So, let’s get it upfront, it is expensive. …
Dentofacial aesthetics for the older patient
on January 17, 2017
A colleague once told me this story about a patient of his. An elderly gentleman came in with several badly decayed front teeth. The teeth were quite rotten, discolored and malaligned. He thought to himself that he could be a hero to this patient because no matter what he did, he woul …
+65 97299061