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60s year old male. Chief complaint "I can't chew effectively and want to bite on the right side." Oral rehabilitation by dental implants, partial orthodontic treatment, gum surgery, and so on. Intra oral photos before treatment. Malocclu...

A meeting of the dental study group was held in Kanda Tokyo last weekend. Because of the cancelation due to corvid 19 last year, this meeting was the first time in 2 years. Zoom meetings were not motivational for me. All members were exc...

Fig.1 Fig.2 2 good things happened in my work this week. The first one is becoming beautiful and functional in 60 year old female teeth (Fig.1). I performed root canal treatment, sinus lift and implants. These are temporary crowns made i...

lobster from Nagasaki duck duck hot pot "Flavors cultivated from history and tradition" Last Tuesday, we celebrated my friend’s 60 year old birthday at the Japanese restaurant "Isukura" in the old town "Nezu " in Tokyo. Dinner Course is ...

A 67 years old guy came and asked me to do treatment. He made a grimace at first, showed attitude of doubt to dentists, and was suffering from severe pain. He said he went to one of the famous private hospitals in Tokyo, a few days ago, ...

Hello. My name is Nozomi Hasegawa. A dentist working in Otemachi Tokyo Japan. I want to share my dental treatments mainly, English learning process, Japanese culture and others. I enjoyed rowing when I was a college student. I was select...

How to contribute to other people? Being helpful to others is worthwhile for living. They say three forth of people hate their jobs. Luckily, I love my work. As a dentist, treatments for patients are contributions themselves. Clocks are ...

Trying to save a tooth which is strictly in a bad condition is occasionally a mission for a dentist depending on a patient’s character, dentist’s skill, etc. It is sometimes difficult to make a decision whether the tooth can be saved or ...

This is a case of periodontal treatment. A 60 years old female had chief complaints which were missing teeth and periodontal problems in remaining teeth, where original bone which hemmed in the teeth had disappeared because of gum diseas...

Leaving missing lower molars often makes upper molars extrude. Because of not enough space, making crowns on dental implants is impossible (far left photos). Applying mini-screw type implants for orthodontic treatment enables to push ext...