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09/26/2025

09/24/2025

Crane Dental Laboratories Dental Implant Awareness 🦷CON'T...⏩
Successful dental implants depend on a solid bone beneath the teeth to anchor and secure the implant. But for many people, bone has thinned, weakened, or deteriorated, leaving you without the depth, width, volume, or quality of bone needed to deal with the ongoing forces that occur when chewing. Fortunately, some procedures can augment the bone you have and build new bone to support dental implants. 😯
Three Procedures for Building Bone 💀🤔
-Bone Grafting: The preferred method for building bone is called a bone graft. In this procedure, a block or particles of bone from another source are placed on the existing bone below the gumline. Over time, this added bone grows, fills the spaces, and fuses with the existing bone to form a strong, new layer of bone that can support implants. The bone used in a graft can come from several different sources:
-Autograft: This is bone taken from elsewhere in the patient’s body, such as from the back of the jawbone near the wisdom teeth, the chin, hip, or shinbone.
Allograft: Refers to bone taken from another person, usually tissue harvested from a cadaver.
-Xenograft: This is bone taken from an animal that can live and grow in humans. These usually come from a cow, pig, or horse.
-Alloplast: This is a graft done using synthetic materials.🧐
Sinus Lift: When the back teeth in the upper jaw are missing, the sinus cavity above them can enlarge and drop into the mouth cavity as the natural bone deteriorates. In a sinus lift (or sinus augmentation), the sinus is lifted to its proper position, and bone is grafted to promote bone growth in the sinus and upper jawbone. Ridge Augmentation When a tooth is lost or removed, the hole left behind changes the shape and surface of the bone loss.
A ridge augmentation: A procedure reconstructs the natural gum, jawline, and grafting bone, leading to additional bone width, growth, and strength.
What To Expect From These Procedures?🤔
Bone grafting procedures are primarily done in the dentist’s office using local anesthesia. They typically require 4 to 12 months to fully heal and have sufficient bone growth for inserting dental implants. You will leave the dentist’s office with temporary teeth that look natural and allow you to chew normally. In some cases, if bone loss is minimal, you may be able to have the dental implant inserted during the bone grafting procedure. 🤯
Your dentist will also give you mild painkillers for the first day or two after the procedure.
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09/23/2025

September is Dental Implant Awareness Month!🤗
Crane Dental Laboratories would like to share...

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Dental Implants! 😉
The American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID) provides public information about the life changing benefits of dental implants and how to find an expert dental implant dentist. 😀

Successful implants with bone loss?? 🤔
The tissue beneath your teeth anchors and secures dental implants, but for many people, their bones have deteriorated over time. People lose bone in their mouths for many reasons, and getting dental implants sooner than later after a tooth loss is crucial.
Luckily, there are three procedures for building bone:

1. Bone grafting
2. Sinus lift
3. Ridge augmentation

🧐 Find out how to build up your bone for dental implants and
learn about the causes of bone loss in our next post!
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09/19/2025

Another week in the books! 😮‍💨
Not without one last opportunity to sponsor the local dental community! 😉
We’re at the Hiland Golf Club ⛳️ for the 4th District Dental Society’s annual CE 🎓and Golf Event! 🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♀️
Maybe next year we will have a Team Crane for the golf tournament portion!
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09/15/2025

Crane Dental Laboratories wants you to know! 🧐
Dental Implants, what are they? 🤔
When a tooth 🦷 is lost due to injury or disease, a person can experience complications such as rapid bone loss, defective speech, or changes to chewing patterns that result in discomfort. 😞 Replacing a lost tooth with a dental implant can significantly improve the patient's quality of life and health. 😲

Dental implant systems consist of a dental implant body and dental implant abutment and may also include an abutment fixation screw. 😯 The dental implant body is surgically inserted in the jawbone 🦴 in place of the tooth's root. The dental implant abutment is usually attached to the implant body by the abutment fixation screw 🔩 and extends through gums into the mouth to support the attached artificial teeth🦷.
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09/15/2025

Our SPEAR Study 🎓 Group kicked off a new season 🦵🏈 Wednesday evening at our facility! Thank you 🙏 for all those that were able to attend!
See you next month! 👀🎃
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09/14/2025

🚂 🦷💨💨💨…
Pulling into Saratoga Springs Station…🚉!
“The Northbound Run!”⬆️🛤️
A beautiful Sunday afternoon,
Stopped 🛑🚏at the Embassy Suites in Saratoga Springs, NY with the Family Dentistry Group Study Club! 🎓📝
Being a part of the local dental community…❤️!
Thank you Jordan Reiss and Mike Recor from DEXIS 🙏 for putting this together…and Dr Joseph Didonato and myself, your speakers…also Dr. Greg Dodd…(legendary🫡)…A Hands-On CBCT CE Course…🤯
YES, I believe, a first of its kind!
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09/10/2025

Crane Dental Laboratories would like you to know...
📣September is National Dental Implant Awareness Month📣
Dental Implants help maintain and strengthen bone structure in order to keep your smile at it’s healthiest by protecting the existing teeth. Once a tooth 🦷 is lost, you might not notice at first, but this can have negative effects on both health and appearance. 😟
So Why Implants? 🤔
Dental Implants provide a strong, stable, and durable foundation for high-quality replacement teeth. Implants may improve the original bite strength and may reverse bone loss in the jaw. 😯
Dental implants can prevent your teeth from shifting, enable you to chew your food better, and improve your self-confidence. 😮
Another important factor of Dental implants is that they improve your oral health. Nearby teeth are not altered to support the implant, more of your own teeth are left intact, improving long-term oral health. 😀
Can Anyone Get Implants? 🤨
In most cases, anyone healthy enough to undergo a routine dental extraction or oral surgery can be considered. If you have healthy gums and enough bone to hold the implant you can be considered! ☺️
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09/08/2025

MORPHEUS By Crane…Industry Leading Features 😎

“Yes, there are “new world” appliances that are absolutely appropriate in specific situations. The MORPHEUS uses a design that is well supported with years of positive literature, and at the same time, provides a top quality appliance at a reasonable fee. Failure as a result of mandibular drop is not possible, and at no time will “elastics” be required.”

*Titration assembly made from high density plastic that is actually stronger than the stainless steel assembly that has been used in the past.

*MorPhlex is the default liner. Hot water makes it resilient, allowing effortless delivery with secure and comfortable fit — allowing every appliance to be readily adapted to the patient’s dentition at the time of insertion. Retention can be readily altered and controlled.

*10-day (or less) laboratory turnaround. Crane Dental Lab is well known for their attention to detail.

*9 mm of titration available with original titration assembly that has been engineered to prevent reversal of titration from muscular forces.

*Potential shortened arch coverage ideal for patient’s who potentially gag and patients requiring smaller appliances and ideal due to the ability to increase retention on cases with limited dentition.

*LIVE CLINICAL SUPPORT for ALL Morpheus cases provided by Dr. Barry Glassman. You will be sent a link to create a support session at your convenience.

*Crane Lab will accept both scans, and stable impressions or physical models. Rush option is available.

*LOOKING FOR LIT to support your use of oral appliance therapy? Morpheus users simply ask and receive!
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09/03/2025

Sleep Apnea & Mouth Guards by Crane Dental Laboratories! 🦷😴
FDA Cleared Appliances. Easy Insertion. Custom Made For Each Patient. 😉

Treatment of sleep disorders is one of the fastest-growing fields of medicine. 😯Recent developments have put dentists on the front line. With Obstructive Sleep Apnea reaching epidemic levels in our society, you have a unique opportunity to significantly improve the lives of those suffering while adding a valuable service to your practice. Untreated, Obstructive Sleep Apnea 🥱 can cause high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, memory problems, weight gain, and headaches. It may also be responsible for job impairment and motor vehicle collisions. 😲Fortunately, Obstructive Sleep Apnea can be diagnosed and treated in your office.

You may be looking to branch out from traditional dentistry to be on the cutting edge of modern medicine, or looking for additional revenue. 🤔
Dental Sleep Medicine is the perfect solution. In response to increasing awareness of sleep apnea, Crane Dental Laboratory is now offering aesthetic, functional Mandibular Repositioning Devices for your patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. 😎
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09/01/2025

From the Crane Dental Crew…
Happy Labor Day! 💪
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08/27/2025

MORPHEUS by Crane! 😴💤
A proven cost effective PDAC approved solution! 😉
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