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Your dentist has likely told you that the mouth serves as a window to your overall health, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that excess plaque and bacteria can wreak havoc on the teeth and gums. But could it possibly contribute to other serious illnesses like heart disease and diabetes? A panel …

You have a chance to win! We have a contest taking place at Prisma Dental! Recommend our Facebook page to your friends, ask that they send us a private message telling us who recommended that they friend us, and YOU and YOUR friend will be entered into a contest for a free cleaning here at …

“Sedation analgesia”, “twilight sleep”, “conscious sedation”, “sedation”, is terms to describe a semi-conscious state that allows patients to be comfortable during certain surgical or medical procedures. The term “analgesia” refers to the relief of pain that is often included in sedation techniques. Sedation analgesia can provide pain relief as well as relief of anxiety that …

The traditional method of placing a dental implant is a process that takes approximately six months to be completed. Now, there is a new way to complete the entire process in one appointment, it is called Immediate Load Implants. The implants and the associated process were developed to reduce the time required to place dental …

Prisma is among the leading facilities in the world for dental implants, and has been performing implants and refining and updating technique and materials since the development of the modern implant in the 1980s. At this point in time, our dentists recommend and perform two-stage implants as providing the best long term results. We urge …

We’d like to wish all of our patients and friends the happiest of holiday seasons and the very best for the New Year in 2011. Keep on smiling!  Prisma Dental is closed for vacation as of today, but will reopen on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. If you wish to schedule an appointment for 2011, please …

Here are a few tips and things to remember when making your appointment for major dental work at Prisma Dental. The dentists and staff make every effort to accommodate all patients and frequently can schedule minor dental and cosmetic work on short notice, but major work with dental implants, crowns and veneers takes time.

Prisma Dental now has more than 650 friends on Facebook! Come join us, if you have not already. Today, we have pictures of the grand opening of Tiffany’s in Costa Rica. Of course, Prisma’s international patient coordinator Tiffany Koffroth had to be there, along with Dr. Telma.

So anyway, I was specifically curious about which cities in the United States produced the most searches for “dental implants” over the last year, and here they are:

I was not going to guess that Las Vegas was No. 1, would you?

Prisma Dental is proud and honored to be among the first medical facilities in Costa Rica to be accredited by the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities International (AAAASFI).