An interview with...

Nigel Rosenbaum Implant Dentist

Dental Implants have revolutionised dentistry, offering life changing benefits of comfort, security and function to denture wearers

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Peak Implant Clinic
41 Bank Road
Matlock
Derbyshire
DE4 3GL
Tel: 01629 584165

About Nigel

Nigel is principal of a specialist dental practice where he undertakes implant and advanced restorative dentistry. Nigel's work involves treatment of patients who are missing one, several or all of their teeth. His interest lies in replacing missing teeth and striving for natural appearance and function particularly in the implant retained dentures he provides.

Nigel qualified as a Dentist in 1988 from the University of Manchester. In 1999 he gained Membership of the Faculty of General Dental Practice of the Royal College of Surgeons, England. His dental implant training started in 1997 when he enrolled on the 1-2-1 Implant Training Course at the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital in Sheffield, accepted now by the General Dental Council as the "gold standard" for implant training. Following completion of that training, he undertook a Masters Degree in Oral and Maxillofacial Implantology at the University of Sheffield, completing this in 2003 and becoming one of the first Dentists to achieve a Masters Degree in dental Implantology in the UK.

In 2008 he passed his specialist qualifications, attaining Membership in Restorative Dentistry, Prosthodontics, from the Royal College of Surgeons, England, and was then admitted to the General Dental Council's Specialist List in Prosthodontics.

Nigel continues to participate in further implant related training, recently in the United States and Germany and France. Since 1999 Nigel has held a weekly teaching position at the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital in Sheffield, where he teaches dentists on the 1-2-1 implant course. He is a post graduate tutor, lecturer and examiner for the Masters Degree and Diploma in dental implantology at the University of Sheffield. He is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons, Faculty of General Dental Practice (London) Diploma in Implant Dentistry, and also for the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh Diploma in Implant Dentistry.

He is a Mentor to other qualified Dentists wishing to deliver implant dentistry, for the Association of Dental Implantology (UK) and for Nobel Biocare (UK) Ltd.

Nigel is a member of the following organisations:

The British Dental Association
The British Society of Occlusal Studies
The British Society of Periodontology
The British Society for the Study of Prosthetic Dentistry
The Association of Dental Implantology
The European Association for Osseointegration
The (American) Academy of Osseointegration

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Can people be too old to have dental implants?

For some people life can be totally miserable as a result of losing teeth and having to wear dentures. To contemplate the rest of their life with such a problem seems such a pity. There is a proven, reliable and straight forward solution. The oldest person I have heard of having dental implants was a sprightly 97 years old, so you are never too old! You can look forward to life without the misery of badly fitting dentures.

A patient has been told that they do not have enough jawbone, can they still have dental implants?

It is important that implants are embedded in jaw bone. For many full denture wearers the most simple and appropriate treatment is the making of very well made dentures. If this still leaves a patient with problems which cannot be solved in this way, then placement of two implants into the lower jaw will stabilise and hold the lower denture firmly. For a few people more implants can allow them to have fixed teeth and get rid of dentures completely. This is really where the lack of bone becomes a bigger problem as most people with full dentures wouldnt have enough bone to stabilise a lower denture. Implant Dentists have a number of techniques available to deal with a lack of jaw bone.

Many patients dentures can hurt their mouths when eating, will it be different with dental implants?

Dentures rest on the gums which are very sensitive and this is why dentures can be uncomfortable when patients bite firmly. With dental implants the biting forces do not have to go onto the gums – instead the forces are transferred to the underlying bone, therefore no pain in the gums.

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