Temecula Facial Oral Surgery

Dental implants are truly one of the greatest dental scientific advances of our time. Implants are tiny titanium rods which are inserted into the upper and lower jaw to serve as the stable platform for dental crowns (caps). They function similarly to the roots of teeth, in that they attach to the jaw bone and give stability and retention to the dental crown—the functional part of the tooth needed for chewing. ...

Dental Tourism is becoming mainstream nowadays… Lots and lots of folks head south across the border to have their dental needs addressed. “After all” they say “it’s cheaper and the doctors are mostly American-trained, so why not?” While it’s true that the prices for dental services are lower south of the border it’s hard to argue that the quality of work is often lower as well. It has to do with the differing standards of care between the US and Mexico. ...

In the last 5 days I received two frantic phone calls from concerned patients. Both had their teeth recently removed in a general dental office and both ended up with bad complications. The first patient had a part of the tooth accidentally pushed into the sinus cavity underneath his eyeball. The second patient ended up with a numb lip after a wisdom tooth removal. ...

Here at Temecula Facial Oral Surgery, we do everything possible to accommodate with same day appointment to ALL patients in pain! We do same day extractions and do not push for general anesthesia. All procedures can be done under local anesthesia. FREE (Dental Implants, Wisdom Teeth) Consultation including X-rays! ...

Patient presented to my office with an abscess involving tooth #8.  As can be seen from the radiograph, a very large periapical lesion is associated with the tooth.  The lesion has destroyed a lot of bone, making immediate implant placement impossible in this situation. ...

I would like to share with you a heartbreaking story of a patient who came into my office.  This 45 year-old male patient had two lower left teeth removed at another dental office two months ago.  The patient never quite “felt right” after the extraction, having pain, swelling and not being able to open his mouth fully. ...

We often see patients who had teeth extracted at another dental office. On multiple occasions, the stories they share are not pleasant. They tell us that it took “two hours” to get a tooth out, that “they were in pain” when the doctor was removing the tooth and that they were “black and blue” afterwards. They come to our office wanting to have a dental implant done, to replace the tooth that was extracted ...

In today’s blog we are going to discuss three common problems that impacted wisdom teeth cause. Impacted wisdom teeth are teeth that develop inside the jaw bone, but fail to erupt/come out into the mouth. As a result, they can cause a variety of problems with adjacent teeth. ...

In this video Dr. Tsvetov explains advantages of dental implant over dental bridge for a single missing tooth. Should you have questions, please do not hesitate to schedule a complimentary implant consultation with Dmitry Y. Tsvetov, DDS, MD. ...

Watch Dr. Dmitry Tsvetov speak about the cost of dental implants in this informative video. ...