Dentist Arne Gheorghiu smiles a lot. He has good reasons: the Romanian born took his handful of prizes, but the latest is a sort of Oscars of his profession. The International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI) awarded Gheorghiu the first prize in the Annual Congress for Implantology, at Phoenix, Arizona, for his new approach in the field.
According to Gheorghiu, teeth severely damaged by disease should not be "rescued", but pulled out and immediately replaced with implants. The catch word here is "immediately", since Gheorghiu promises and delivers "new teeth in one day".
Gheorghiu is fiercely against the standard procedure, which requires the patient to stand painful medical procedures spanning over one year, from extracting the patientâs own tooth and replacing it with another one. As Gheorghiu explains, the standards so far were to extract the tooth, then wait for six months for the bone to heal, after which the bone implant was added - first with cutting the gums open and then sawing them back together; after another six months the new fake tooth was added.
Gheorghiuâs method, marketed as "teeth-in-an-hour", does not have many followers, as he himself admits, since dentists are reluctant to shorten the healing process as they new it.
But Gheorghiu does more than that, since he combines the immediate tooth loading procedure with other techniques, like extracting any pathological growths sas cists and granulomat, reconstructing the missing bone, and inserting the implants through the space left open by the extracted tooth, with almost no extra cut to the gums sflaplesst. "
So, what is truly mine is the combination of the various procedures and their use in the space of one day, as opposed to having them spanning over a long time. This is not a magicianâs feat, but a new approach," said Gheorghiu.
He lives in Villingen-
