Expert advice and patient education from your Wilmington prosthodontist.
October 23, 2026 · 4 min read
Whether your teeth are fixed in place or snap on and off, bleeding means the gum around the implants is inflamed. With a full arch riding on four implants, that is worth taking seriously early.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Porcelain does not wear out, stain through, or degrade. When a veneer fails, the failure is almost always at the bond or in the tooth underneath.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Five to ten years is roughly right. What that number hides is that the denture itself rarely wears out on that timescale. What changes is the mouth underneath it.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2026 · 5 min read
The diagnosis combines two findings: inflammation in the tissue, and evidence on an X-ray that bone has been lost. Neither alone is sufficient, and that is the part most explanations skip.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Usually yes, but not while the disease is active. That qualification is the whole answer, and it is the part that gets lost when the question is posed as a simple yes or no.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Patients call it gum disease around an implant. Clinicians call it peri-implant disease. The vocabulary mismatch causes real confusion, and the conditions are related but not identical.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Most bumps near an implant are treatable and few are emergencies. What it is depends on how it looks, how it feels, and how long it has been there.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Most people want to compare what they see in the mirror against what the condition looks like. Here is the appearance stage by stage, and an honest account of what looking cannot settle.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Peri-implantitis can destroy a significant amount of supporting bone while producing no pain at all. Waiting for pain is the most common way this progresses past the reversible stage.
Read MoreReading only goes so far. Dr. Pan gives every new patient a full 1.5 hours to review their options in person.
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