Abstract: A dental implant and final prosthetic placement system for small-diameter implants (and method for using the system) in which a final prosthetic is digitally designed and created, and is itself used as the drill guide to place the implants. The final prosthetic is held in the predetermined proper drilling position by a stent, such as an occlusal guard. The combination of final prosthetic (with holes through which the small-diameter implants are drilled to secure it) and the stent encasing the final prosthetic, is itself the drill guide.

Abstract: A dental implant and final prosthetic placement system for small-diameter implants (and method for using the system) in which a final prosthetic is digitally designed and created, and is itself used as the drill guide to place the implants. The final prosthetic is held in the predetermined proper drilling position by a stent, such as an occlusal guard. The combination of final prosthetic (with holes through which the small-diameter implants are drilled to secure it) and the stent encasing the final prosthetic, is itself the drill guide.

Abstract: A dental implant and final prosthetic placement system for small-diameter implants (and method for using the system) in which a final prosthetic is digitally designed and created, and is itself used as the drill guide to place the implants. The final prosthetic is held in the predetermined proper drilling position by a stent, such as an occlusal guard. The combination of final prosthetic (with holes through which the small-diameter implants are drilled to secure it) and the stent encasing the final prosthetic, is itself the drill guide.

Abstract: The replacement of teeth using dental implants has always been done sequentially with the placement of the implant into a patient's bone followed by the creation of a prosthesis and subsequent insertion of the prosthesis. The process can take numerous visits and is done over a period of many months. This patent describes a method of using a digitally designed and created dental prosthesis as the drill guide to place the implants. Rather than the stent acting as a guide to place the implants, the drill guide itself comprises a stent encasing the final prosthesis. The final prosthesis—whose placement was digitally predetermined—is then secured with small-diameter implant screws, and the case is completed in one short visit.

Abstract: A dental implant apparatus and method of use which has a central conduit and a plurality of apical apertures through which fluid bone-grafting material may be extruded. A resorbable membrane surrounds the apical end of the apparatus and unfurls as bone-grafting material exits the apertures, thereby holding the fluid in close proximity to the implant.

Abstract: The present invention provides lipid emulsions and methods of intravenously administering lipid emulsions to treat systemic toxicity caused by foreign lipophilic and amphiphilic substances. In particular, methods are provided to treat cardiovascular impairment, such as cardiotoxicity, asystole and ischemia of the brain and heart, and neurological impairments, such as seizures and comas, caused by foreign lipophilic and amphiphilic substances, including cardiovascular impairment caused by local anesthetics, tricyclic antidepressants, sodium channel blockers, and calcium channel blockers.

Abstract: A dental implant apparatus and method of use which has a central conduit and a plurality of apical apertures through which fluid bone-grafting material may be extruded. A resorbable membrane surrounds the apical end of the apparatus and unfurls as bone-grafting material exits the apertures, thereby holding the fluid in close proximity to the implant.

Abstract: A tooth implant is done by first fitting to teeth adjacent an edentulous site of a jawbone a temporary bridge and providing in the bridge a guide tube oriented in alignment with a location on the site where an implant pin is to be seated. Then, with the bridge in place and using the tube as a guide, a pilot bore is drilled in the jawbone at the location, and then the implant pin is fitted into the drilled bore and the tube is plugged. The bridge with the plugged tube in place at the site during an osseointegration period after which the bridge is removed and replaced with a prosthesis anchored to the implant.

Abstract: An appliance for activating a tooth-whitening agent has a source of ultrasonic vibration having an active ultrasonically agitated tip. A holder is fittable over the tip and carries a vibration-conducting fork engageable between the upper teeth and lower teeth of a patient and in contact with the tip for transmitting ultrasonic vibrations from the tip to the patient's teeth.

Abstract: A method of whitening teeth has the steps of applying chlorine dioxide to surfaces of the teeth, leaving the solution on the teeth for a predetermined time, rinsing the solution from the teeth, repeating previous two steps at least once, and applying tubule sealant to the surfaces.

Abstract: A tooth implant is done by first fitting to teeth adjacent an edentulous site of a jawbone a temporary bridge and providing in the bridge a guide tube oriented in alignment with a location on the site where an implant pin is to be seated. Then, with the bridge in place and using the tube as a guide, a pilot bore is drilled in the jawbone at the location, and then the implant pin is fitted into the drilled bore and the tube is plugged. The bridge with the plugged tube in place at the site during an osseointegration period after which the bridge is removed and replaced with a prosthesis anchored to the implant.

Abstract: The present invention provides lipid emulsions and methods of intravenously administering lipid emulsions to treat systemic toxicity caused by foreign lipophilic and amphiphilic substances. In particular, methods are provided to treat cardiovascular impairment, such as cardiotoxicity, asystole and ischemia of the brain and heart, and neurological impairments, such as seizures and comas, caused by foreign lipophilic and amphiphilic substances, including cardiovascular impairment caused by local anesthetics, tricyclic antidepressants, sodium channel blockers, and calcium channel blockers.

Abstract: Lipid emulsion compositions and methods of using such composition via intravenous infusion to reduce the bioavailability and toxicity of poisonous agents in the bloodstream.