Dental Implants in Mountain View: Technology and Excellent Results

If you live in Mountain View, California, statistics suggest you’re likely to pay more attention to teeth than elsewhere in the country – but the ancient Celts were there a long time before you.  It appears that well before dental treatment went mainstream, taking care of one’s teeth was regarded as important. Recent archaeological discoveries have led scientists to believe that people in ancient times underwent primitive surgeries (most likely of a type that would cause the modern patient to flee in terror) to cure their dental problems.

According to a recent article in Huffington Post, dental implants are nothing new: lodged in the mouth of one Celtic skull researchers found an iron pin that seemed to be a fashioned as a kind of substitute for a tooth

“In [the Celtic burial site of] Le Chêne, the replaced tooth is a central maxillary incisor, which is one of the "most visible teeth when you speak or when you smile," the archaeologist told Live Science in an email. "So the intention was probably aesthetic."

The chance to flash someone with a glittering smile was apparently just as important to the Celts as it is to us. However, the ancient civilizations used a variety of materials that we now regard as unorthodox for their dental procedures. But the replacement of lost teeth is nothing new: Previous studies have reported on a 7,000-year-old skull from Algeria that sports a replica tooth sculpted from bone. Other excavations have unearthed a 5,500-year-old skeleton from Egypt with a replacement incisor fashioned from a shell.

Having such a delicate operation back then would almost inevitably have been a very painful experience, and materials that resemble teeth would have been a rarity. “It’s a sure bet that some of the resulting smiles were things of awe rather than of beauty, and must have hurt considerably,” commented Dr. Patrick McEvoy, DDS, a Mountain view cosmetic dentist renowned for his advanced and pain free cosmetic dentistry and implant skills. Luckily, people seeking dental implants in Mountain View or other areas rich in dental expertise don’t need to worry about such frightening circumstances.

Patients in need of the services of a cosmetic dentist in Mountain View can rely on skilled practitioners like Dr. McEvoy, whose use of state of the art procedures, technologies and techniques help ensure a successful and stress free treatment, using a wide range of materials and instruments such as titanium-based artificial roots that are surgically implanted on either the upper or lower jaw bone.

Unlike the ancients, who had little to rely on but hope, today’s patients can be sure that their implants will be placed in the most comfortable and aesthetically pleasing site. Dentists use digital imaging, X-Rays and jaw molds before any procedure to assure correct placement of the implants, and modern technology and anesthesia make treatments so comfortable that patients often drop off to sleep mid-procedure, says Dr. McEvoy.

We can’t know for sure, but we suspect this was not the case with the ancient Celts.

(Source: Dental Implant Discovery Suggests Ancient Celts May Have Sported Serious Bling, Huffington Post, July 16, 2014)