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Villa Dental Clinic: leader in Europe in Invisalign implants.

The transparent alternative to braces. Besides classic orthodontic braces, we are able to provide our patients with the latest in orthodontic treatment which consists of a series of transparent, almost invisible aligners fitted over the teeth which allow them to move and re-position.. This technique, which is called Invisalign, is particularly suited to youngsters and adults who do not want the embarrassment of wearing unflattering braces.

Invisalign, in fact, uses sets of transparent, custom-fitted aligners applied to the teeth. They are hardly noticeable and gently move the teeth into the desired position. They can be removed each time you eat and for brushing and flossing and most importantly do not condition the patient in their everyday life as the aligner is almost invisible and does not have metal wires and bands which can irritate the mouth.

Invisalign can be recommended to solve most common orthodontic problems in adolescents and adults whether it be a question of getting a better-looking smile, correcting crowding, overlapping or excessive gaps between the teeth.

Even more complex cases like deep- bite, open-bite and cross-bite can benefit from this treatment which is less traumatic and embarrassing.

The Villa Dental Clinic is leader in Europe in the Invisalign technique, visit our website for further information.

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Anaesthetist Support at the Villa Dental Clinic

The Villa Dental Clinic offers its patients the assistance and support of our highly qualified and experienced anaesthetist, Dr. Lucia Capellaro, during all implant and oral surgery. Her experience in the field of Anaesthetics, Intensive care and Pain Control Therapy is at international level. She has been a speaker at courses and congresses on Anaesthesia in Day Surgery and Regional Anaesthesia, in Italy and abroad.

It is always advisable to have an anaesthetist present during surgery on patients with serious cardiac-respiratory problems in order to guarantee the patient’s safety and to help prevent post-surgical pain and promote a feeling of well-being and tranquillity during the operation. In fact, the patient is given an intravenous injection which allows a painkiller, gastric protector and, if necessary, tranquilliser to be administered to keep the patient as comfortable as possible.

All surgery is carried out in our operating theatre where the strictest sterile procedures are adhered to. The operating theatre is equipped with a cardiac-monitor, defibrillator, blood pressure gauge, oxygen supply. The anaesthetist will also monitor vital functions closely (ECG; 0xygen Saturimetry, etc )

For further information about the Villa Dental Clinic’s services and techniques you can visit the website www.clinicaodontoiatricavilla.com.

Villa Dental Clinic: bridging the gap between health and beauty.

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Digital Radiology at the Villa Dental Clinic

The radiology equipment of the Villa Dental Clinic is at our dentists’ disposal for every eventuality they have to deal with.

The machines are all digital and online which means that the images can be viewed immediately from any computer throughout the Clinic.
All patients are first given a panoramic  x-ray to check if there are any bone or dental problems and identify areas of bone where eventual implants might be placed. . Should disease be detected, further, more in-depth periapical (classic dental)  x-rays will be taken. These are much smaller in size but more accurate and detailed.

The Clinic also possesses a latest generation CATSCAN: a Cone Beam Volumetric Tomography.
It is the most advanced model with the best volumetric data acquisition available at present on the market: The Kavo 3D eXam

There are numerous benefits to having diagnostic machinery of this level at our disposal:

1) the amount of radiation is much lower compared to a traditional Catscan.
With a traditional Catscan the patient is subjected to a dose of radiation equivalent to 60 panoramic x-rays, while with the Cone Beam the amount of radiation given is at most equivalent to 3 or 4 panoramics.

2)  the areas to be checked can be pinpointed with greater precision, thus avoiding radiating adjacent areas to no purpose.

patients undergoing implant restoration or oral surgery in critical areas of the mouth ( e.g. ingrown mandibular wisdom teeth) can be examined immediately within the Clinic.

4) the quality of the image is perfectly comparable to that of the traditional Catscan and can be loaded onto Nobelguide or Materialiste software for digital surgical planning

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Villa Dental Clinic: the best dental technology and a first-rate staff of dentists

The Villa Dental Clinc not only offers its patients the best dental technology , but also a first-class staff of dentists, able to meet any medical need and to follow the patient in all phases of therapy.

Depending on the areas of action, three professionals , supported by a strong staff, carry out medical activities of the Clinic.

Dr. Roberto Villa

Dr. Roberto Villa has a degree in Medicine ( MD ), 1979 and a degree in Dentistry ( DDS ), 1984, both from Turin University. He has attended seminars and courses at the most prestigious centres for Osseointegration in Sweden. Since the late nineties he has concentrated his attention on immediate function especially in post-extraction sites and has developed innovative surgical protocols, published articles and held lectures on this subject in Italy and abroad. His particular interest has been for computer-guided implant surgery for which he has created a personal protocol for use with Nobelguide in post-extraction sites and in complex situations where the residual bone is extremely limited. In the past few years his attention has focused on implant aesthetics especially in post-extraction cases.

Dr. Massimiliano Rossin

Over the years he has continued to attend professional development courses in the various branches of his profession, in particular those regarding cosmetic, minimally invasive and preservative dentistry. At present his work mainly focuses on prosthetic and aesthetic dentistry having just completed a new advanced one-year course on prostheses with Dr. Mauro Fradeani in 2008 .

Dr. Ermenegildo Ferla

He has attended courses on orthodontics held by very important national and international lecturers such as: R.M.Rickets, C. Gugino, I. Dus, P. Bracco, G. Fiorelli. He obtained his “ Invisalign “ certificate in 2007 He is a member of the Societa italiana di Ortognatodonzia Bioprogressiva ( S. I. O. B. ) and the Associazione italiana di Gnatologia ( A. I. G. )

Dr. Lucia Capellaro

Her experience in the field of Anaesthetics, Intensive care and Pain Control Therapy is at international level. She has been a speaker at courses and congresses on Anaesthesia in Day Surgery and Regional Anaesthesia, in Italy and abroad. The Villa Dental Clinic has been using her services since 2002.

At the Villa Dental Clinic the relationship of trust with the the patient comes first , and each of our professionals is not simply a doctor but can become your dentist.

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Villa Dental Clinic: innovative techniques for teeth whitening.

A nice smile is a valid passport everywhere. Unfortunately bad eating habits, smoking, poor oral hygiene and other factors tend inexorably to yellow teeth, making the smile less bright.
But what can be done to prevent the yellow teeth?

The outer layer of a tooth is the enamel, which is composed of thin rods ( enamel prisms ) held together by a cementing substance and surrounded by an enamel sheath. The inner part is called dentine which consists of microscopic channels called dentinal tubules joined together. Yellow in appearance the various shades of dentine constitute the basis of tooth colour. Enamel, which in fact is translucent and colourless, reflects the underlying dentine. Most cases of yellowing teeth are the result of diet and age as enamel is not inert  but absorbs and reacts to saliva. The sheath and the intra-prism cement absorb substances containing pigments ( food, cigarette smoke, coffee, wine etc ) which reduce the translucency of the tooth.

Luckily new innovative solutions to this problem are now available, such as professional tooth whitening, which enable us to restore our patients’ “beautiful smiles”.

This new procedure makes use of  professional whitening gels activated by  special led lamps which speed up the bleaching process. The whole treatment only lasts about an hour.

Professional whitening is a safe technique which gives good results and can be repeated in time. Obviously the outcome of this treatment can differ from patient to patient depending on the structure of the teeth. Fundamental to obtaining long-lasting , effective results is correct oral hygiene.

For more than twenty years the mission of the Villa Dental Clinic has been to give you a perfect smile and a healthy mouth and, with a constant professional and technology development, we carry it out every day with success.

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Villa Dental Clinic: some successful cases.

At the Villa Dental Clinic we deal every day with complex clinical cases and, at times, with seemingly impossible to solve ones. Thanks to our experience and the preparation of our staff, however,
our patients always come back home satisfied and finally with a perfect smile . Here is a brief review of some real cases of success treated in the clinic.

Case details
This patient of 73, who had a chronic coagulation deficit, came to us for examination as he was interested in total restoration with implants. In a situation like this, the greatest risk was from possible haemorrhaging during and/or post-operation, especially in  traditional-type surgery where the gum is stripped back. With the patient conscious but under sedation, we operated first, on the upper jaw, and then after two weeks, on the lower jaw. In both operations the teeth were extracted and the implants placed using minimally invasive procedures. In both the upper and the lower jaws of the patient the provisional crowns were screwed directly on to the implants  the day after surgery.

Case details
This patient of 50 had had a removable partial denture on the upper jaw for years and the remaining teeth were very loose due to chronic periodontal disease. With the patient conscious but under sedation , we extracted the teeth and positioned the implants with the help of a surgical template obtained from a computerised plan ( Nobelguide ) which allowed us to keep surgical invasiveness to a minimum. At the same time we corrected the gum recession with connective tissue grafts. The following day the patient was provided with temporary fixed crowns screwed directly on to the implants. The permanent crowns were fitted 6 months after surgery

Case details
This patient of 18 was referred to us by her dentist two days after a road accident in which she had suffered the loss of a lateral incisor and upper right canine. Four days after this traumatic event two implants were placed directly into the sockets using flapless surgery to prevent scarring and recession of tissues in an area of the mouth which is extremely important from an aesthetic point of view. The same day as the operation, the patient was restored with two temporary crowns in resin screwed on to the implants. After 6 months these crowns were replaced with two single all ceramic crowns.

To read about other cases and for further informations on the techniques used at the Villa Dental Clinic go to our website .

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Villa Dental Clinica: leader in Europe in computer-guided implantology.

The introduction of digital technology combined with Roberto Villa‘s vast experience in the field of immediate loading has generated significant added benefit for the patient. The Villa Dental Clinic uses the Nobelguide system for digital surgical planning which represents a breakthrough in oral implantology. A scan of the patient’s jaw is transformed by Nobelguide software into a 3D model which allows the computer to find the optimum position for the implants. The imaging is then sent via Internet to a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Sweden where a tailor-made surgical template is produced. This template allows us to be extremely precise when transferring the surgical plan carried out by us on the computer directly into the patient’s mouth.

The first advantage of this technology is that it reduces the invasiveness of surgery ( Flapless surgery ). As a consequence physiological healing of tissues is quicker and pain, bleeding and swelling, normally associated with traditional implantology, are more or less absent. Most patients can usually get back to their everyday lives the following day. Another great advantage of this technology is that it can exploit areas of bone for positioning the implants, which cannot be detected in traditional surgery. This allows us to reduce enormously the number and duration of operations we have to perform on patients with limited amounts of bone.. Therefore, self-generated bone grafts (from the hip, skullcap or intraoral areas) or complex procedures of bone regeneration can be avoided, all in the patient’s interests.

Furthermore, the Nobelguide system has been adapted by us so that it can be applied not only to the treatment of completely edentulous (toothless) patients but also to those requiring the extraction of remaining teeth. Thus, even in extremely complicated situations where there is a lack of residual bone, teeth can be extracted, implants placed in position and residual bone reconstructed with biomaterials, all in the one sitting. And also in these very complex cases we can provide the patient with a fixed, temporary crown to satisfy aesthetic and functional needs within 24 hours,at the most. In order to obtain the best aesthetic and functional results from dental implants, surgical invasiveness has to be kept to a minimum, operating times short, and survival in time high.

The Villa Dental Clinic is a leader in Europe in the field of computer-guided implantology and resolves everyday clinical cases normally labeled as impossible.
Visit our website for more informations about us and our innovative clinical procedures.

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Dr. Roberto Villa to present a scientific paper at the International Conference of Implantology 2010 in Rome.

Dr. Roberto Villa will participate in the International Conference of Implantology 2010 in Rome dedicated to the theme: “A new paradigm in implantology.”

The conference will be attended by 200 of the best Italian and foreign specialists in dental implants and the results of various specialized studies on new solutions for dental implants will be presented

Dr. Roberto Villa is presenting the results of his study dedicated to flapless surgery in post-extractive rehabilitation : “Flapless surgery in immediate post-extraction rehabilitations: a tour between biology and aesthetics. “ The techniques presented in this paper are currently in use at the Villa Dental Clinic.

Dr. Roberto Villa has a degree in Medicine (MD), 1979 and a degree in Dentistry (DDS), 1984, both from Turin University. He has attended seminars and courses at the most prestigious centres for Osseointegration in Sweden. Since the late 90s he has concentrated his attention on immediate function especially in post-extraction sites and has developed innovative surgical protocols, published articles and held lectures on this subject in Italy and abroad. His particular interest has been for computer-guided implant surgery for which he has created a personal protocol for use with Nobelguide in post-extraction sites and in complex situations where the residual bone is extremely limited. In the past few years his attention has focused on implant aesthetics especially in post-extraction cases.

Roberto Villa, Opinion leader of NobelBiocare, holds courses for advanced implant surgery with Live Surgery at the Villa Dental Clinic. He is an active member of the European Academy of Osteointegration. Practice limited to surgery and implant prostheses.

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A new website for the Villa Dental Clinic, leader in Europe for immediate loading dental implants.

With the desire to strengthen its web presence the Villa Dental Clinic launches a new website, completely renovated and full of useful content.

In addition to the specialized publications of Dr. Roberto Villa, the new site gives space to detailed profiles of all the dental activities carried on at the Clinic: dental implants, post-extraction immediate loading, orthodontics, cosmetic dentistry and prevention activities.

Thanks to these new content both the ordinary users and the future patients of the Clinic can get a complete picture of the proceedings and results which may be expected.

Also on the website is a large section dedicated to clinical cases of success, with a complete photographic documentation that demonstrates the effectiveness of the methods used by Dr. Villa and his staff.

The new website of the Villa Dental Clinic represents an useful tool for anyone seeking reliable information and insights on major dental techniques.

Although the website is new, the Villa Dental Clinic has been operating in the field of oral for over twenty years and in time it has become a center of excellence in this field. Nowadays, the Villa Dental Clinic can deal with single, partial or total restorations and provide temporary teeth within 24 hours of surgery, even when faced with difficult or seemingly impossible cases.

In its on-going search for the best aesthetic results, alongside implantology the Clinic boasts a highly professional dental team specialised in finding the best solutions also for the restoration of natural teeth. The orthodontics section works in close collaboration with the other branches of the Clinic and supplies the correct support and approach to oral reconstruction.

Check out the new site and learn more about the Villa Dental Clinic and the services we offer.

Villa Dental Clinic: bridging the gap between health and beauty.

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