How Dental Implant Surgery can be Pain-free

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Go Dental Clinic

Karama, Dubai
Dubai

Please help me understand your specialty - Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

We do everything from minor and major surgeries including the head and neck. Wisdom tooth which is erupting in a certain way and damaging adjacent teeth.  Cyst and tumour surgeries. Then surgeries for children who are born with cleft lip and palate. Motor vehicular accidents where there is a jaw fracture. We get them back to form and function as soon as possible. Then, many people are born with jaw deformities. We do surgery for that. But my main interest is in dental implantology.

What’s the secret of your pain-less surgery?

My boss who was training me in maxillofacial surgery used to always say that a patient will always be scared of the unknown, something he has not seen. That’s what I was really caught on to. I go through the whole drill as to what I am going to be doing. And ensure patients understand everything. I even explain the complications to them, even though very rare, but still it’s important. By the time they sit on the chair, half their anxiety is gone. The remaining half of the anxiety goes when I give them painless injection. So if you may call, that it is my secret.

Even implant patients seems to say there was no anxiety with you?

Howsoever skilled an implant surgeon is, there is a chance of human error involved. We remove that by guided surgery. There is no error, zero error. We explain that to the patient, how it is different from the free-hand surgery and there is no reason for anxiety after that. Having said that, some patients do need some additional help. And for that we provide nitrous oxide, IV sedation, for which we have specialist anaesthetists, who come in and give the sedation, then the procedure is done by me, and by the time the patient fully understands what’s happening, the procedure is done with.

Some patients commented their implant surgery was done on the same day. How is it possible?

Same-day implants can be done for a single tooth, few teeth or the whole arch(full mouth). The procedure for full mouth is called all-on-4, where we place 4 of the world's best quality implants from Sweden and give 12 fixed functioning teeth on these implants within 24 hrs. To make this possible, along with good surgery, you need a good lab and we at Dr Joy are lucky to have an in-house lab that makes the teeth same-day while the patient relaxes in our waiting room.

Many patients still think implant is expensive

Dental implant is not expensive. The type of function that it gives back to the patients, how it changes lives, you cannot put price tag to that. Negligence is more expensive. Implants are not. They are for life, once done properly.