You put down Dr. Balshi, you do so at your own foolery.
He is WORLD RENOWNED, people fly in from all over the world for his procedures. He has a teaching institute, his own lab, scores of employees, etc. This is a wealthy prestigious area. I personally sat with many dentists while observing his procedure, asking amazing questions and hearing amazing answers. This man is not to be so casually dismissed. But go right ahead and respond to my comments with more disrespect. I DON’T CARE. It doesn’t change my experience with doing what you suggest.
I have CM’s. No gold. My prosthesis traveled to many places over the world to complete various stages, as it was cutting edge technology at the time they were made, years ago.
Again, you can keep on posting whatever you wish in defense of your dentist’s practice while putting down another’s practice. I DON’T CARE. It does NOT change what happened to my teeth!
I personally do not think you should be permitted to post medical advice (”suggestions”) on someone else’s site. It is litigiously risky for the site’s owner, but that is not my call to make.
My ONLY purpose in sharing my experience with what you suggest is for OTHER readers, to be very careful and check what you read on the internet with your own professional medical provider.
You want to keep coming back at me? Fine. You can never convince me because I look in the mirror every day and see what taking your “suggestion” has wrought on my teeth.
I’ve shared my experience for all to read, and that was my goal, to help FReepers with their decision-making in regard to this.
DONE!
He appears to be good at self-promotion. His lecturing citations appear to be all associated with appearing on behalf of Brånemark and are probably funded by them. His lectures are on the Brånemark implant system and his "The Institute For Facial Esthetics" he founded consists of him and includes members of his family as other officers and directors.
His citation in his CV on their website claiming being listed in the 2004, Dr. Balshi was selected to be in the book, “The Best Dentists in America.” It's one every dentist in the USA is offered for a mere $650 fee (which is negotiable when their salespeople call, they'll even go as low as $100 if you show any reluctance to buy! I know, I've taken the call several times.). For that fee you get a lovely wall plaque, a listing in the book, and a copy of the book. Whoopee. . . We decline it every year because it is worth nothing. It has even less value than any "Who's Who" book. Apparently Dr Balshi's office manager figured that out in 2005 and has also declined the "honor" for the subsequent twelve years.
As for "defending" our dentist's practice, we have placed over 700 complex implants and not a single one has discolored following what is a pretty standard protocol for defending against bacterial invasion for a post extruding through a gum that no longer has the natural gingival sulcus and its natural outward flow that makes the seal that exists around natural teeth. That normal protocol is the use of a diluted Dakin's Solution. The ONLY difference we have instituted here is to use it in healthy mouths to kill spirochetes which may have some other prosthetic devices such as crowns or, in your instance, reconstructions. Not a SINGLE device has ever discolor because of the use of such a dilute Dakin's Solution in over forty years of practice. None.
Yours is the first we've ever heard of, so I still call BS on it, or yours is not made of any kind of normal material used for such dental reconstructions. I've provided you commentary showing the chemical resistance of the materials that are normally used for dental reconstruction, against which you provide an anecdote. Anecdotes are NOT data. Material data is exactly that, data. Anecdotes are not. These materials are chosen for their strength and resistance to wear and chemical issues, especially discoloring. Your claim does not hold any water on this in our experience which is extensive. Titanium does not discolor, Vitalium does not discolor, Silver amalgum does not discolor (although it would never be used for implants), and even dental gold does not discolor. . . And certainly dental ceramics do not discolor nor come apart nor erode under such a mild dilution of Dakin's, as you claim. So what in the heck are your reconstructions made out of? Tissue paper?
I have factually described what I see on your dentist's website. . . he knows only one system of implants, the Brånemark brand, and he actively pushes that single form (a screw) implant system when there are far more modalities of implants. He seems to promote himself quite a bit, appearing on TV and promote his preferred brand, which tells me he's probably actively backed by that company.
Dr. Balshi is probably an excellent dentist, but he is limited by being captive to only one implant system. There are many more and they can offer better solutions to many pathologies than the limited Brånemark screw only system. He does list that he is a Diplomate of The American Board of Prosthodontics. Good for him.
Our top Implantologist is a Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, a Fellow of the International College of Implantology, a Member of the American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, a Diplomat of the American Board of Oral Implantology / Implant Dentistry, and an Examiner for the California State Dental Board for I.V. Sedation. He has both studied and taught multiple implant modalities at: