GOALS AND PLANS FOR 2015 – The year 2015 gives Pi Dental Center another opportunity to welcome new patients and help them attain healthy mouths. We love to see our patients’ glow when they see their damaged mouths transformed into confidence-building, healthy dazzling megawatt smiles.
Benefits for Patients
This year, patients will benefit from new dental technologies, techniques, materials and advanced laboratory procedures that have only become available recently.
Patients now have the option to be treated by our newest member, Dr. Stephen Alfano, a board certified maxillofacial prosthodontist, who joined our team last October. Patients and staff are impressed with Dr. Alfano’s skills, enthusiasm, charm and warm responsive personality.
Dental treatment can put a strain on the budget. We strive to find financial solutions to treat all of our dental patients’ problems. We offer financing options and various levels of treatment to help patients balance dental care needs and finances.
Going Digital
Digital radiography has improved considerably during the past few years, allowing for more thorough diagnostic evaluation and reduced exposure to radiation. This technology enables us to design prostheses with greater accuracy, better engineering and improved esthetics.
Patients love their new AvaDent® digital dentures! These digital dentures are the world’s first computer designed and computer manufactured dentures. Because AvaDent® Digital Dentures are computer designed and precision milled, they feel lighter and more natural in the mouth, fit precisely, resist bacteria and can be replaced quickly if lost or damaged. In 2015, Pi Dental Center will also use AvaDent® Digital Dentures for fixed restorations in conjunction with dental implants.
Research for Improved Outcomes
Pi Dental Center leads the dental community in ongoing research in the quest to improve patient dental health, through pain-free dental care. Our ongoing studies include investigation of smoking in the dental implant patient, self-esteem for dental implant patients, the biomechanics of All-On-4 dental implant protocol, and review of dental impression techniques.
The Pi team is Philadelphia’s premiere dental implant center! With so many competitors popping up in the area claiming they’re the best, our 30+ years of implant treatment, research and teaching speak for themselves. Our team has placed over 40,000 dental implants.
Goals and Objectives
We seek to show our world class professionalism, hospitality and surgical and prosthodontic talent to all of those who walk through the Pi doors offering courses for dental specialists and students in subjects like, “Immediate Loading of Dental Implants Using The Teeth In a Day® Protocol,” “All-on-4® Treatment Concept: Complete Arch Oral Rehabilitation and Immediate Function Using Tilted Implants and AvaDent® Fully Milled Monolithic Screw-Retained Prosthesis,” and “Advanced Guided Surgery with Zygoma Implants.”
The Pi Foundation will present, “Smiles Uncorked,” on Thursday evening, April 23, 2015. The fund-raising event will take place at the beautiful Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and include several wine tasting stations featuring world class vineyards. Tastings will even take place on the Arboretum’s famous Out-on-a-Limb Forest Canopy walk. If wine isn’t your thing, there will also be a vodka bar featuring the Pi Foundation’s signature cocktail. Throughout the event there will be gourmet small plates, live music and an auction featuring trips, one of a kind collectibles and other wine related items. Proceeds from the event will support treatment for deserving Pi Foundation patients.
Pi Dental Center is active in supporting worthy community endeavors. This April, Pi Dental Center will sponsor the Ambler Environmental Advisory Council’s Earth Fest promoting a clean, safe and healthy environment and increasing environmental awareness.
CPR/AED
Each year, the Pi Team gets recertified by the American Heart Association in Basic Life Support for CPR/AED (cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator). The yearly classes have become a Pi Dental Center tradition with everyone from the doctors and clinical staff to the front desk and technical departments in attendance. Rigorous standards are outlined ensuring a comprehensive response will be followed in the event of an emergency. We maintain an emergency action plan, a fire prevention strategy, and a state of the art infection control procedure using the latest techniques and guidelines. We conduct continuous evaluations so that all departments function at their optimum level and all practices are current.
This year Pi Dental Center remains focused on delivering radiant smiles using the highest quality dental restorations in a competent yet friendly environment.
We encourage our patients to schedule routine maintenance in advance so that small problems are discovered and handled quickly and efficiently. We are proud to have four outstanding dental hygienists to provide effective and thorough prophylactic care. With new technologies, team members and energy, we are taking Pi Dental Center to new heights in 2015!
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By Chris Raines
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