December 16, 2025 • 12 mins
We spoke with Dr. Abbas Mohammadi about prosthetic teeth, regenerative dentistry, and bionic mastication of teeth.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Thank you for listening to Community Access. I'm
Alison de Merz. My guest in studio today is doctor
Abbas Mohammadi, founder of Columbia Dental. Good morning, doctor, Good
morning Alison, thank you for being here. So for those
who don't know about Columbia Dental, let's just start out
with you have twelve offices.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Twelve offices, Yeah, we do have twelve location through a
state of Connecticut from Norwalk to Enfield and from New
Milfare to Manchester, Connecticut, so twelve locations. We cover both
ninety one and eighty four So doesn't matter which roudio
troup traveling through the state, there are going to be
(00:41):
some Columbia Dental that can provide services.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And you're opened pretty much three hundred and sixty five
days a year.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Correct. In our Manchester location, we are open every single day.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So today I'd like to talk about a couple of
new things. The first being regenerative dentistry.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes, regionally their dentistry. That means we losing a tissue
or the bone due to let's say gum disease or
periodontal disease. So there is a science to regenerate some
of the bone laws or tissue laws due to the
disease Wow periodontal disease, another regenerative dentiercy that we do
(01:24):
a lot. We call it bone graph, which means people
that they need they have a bad tieve and they
need the thief to be removed. At the time of
the extraction, we recommend to place bone graph material within
the socket and cover it with the collagen membring. That
procedure called bone graph and by doing that it preserves
(01:49):
the bone. And why we wanted to preserve the bone
because we need bone for placing implant. Implant wasn't that
popular maybe fifteen twenty yearsyears ago. So as the result,
you know, people they just removed the tiev. They didn't
care how much bone is going. Bone resoption would occur
after extraction. But these days we are very conservative in
(02:13):
conservation of the bone because we need the bone for
implant placement. For that reason, this service has been being
provided to all my twelve locations. All my providers are
being trained. Whenever they do extraction. At the time of
the extraction, we always offer the patient to receive the
(02:36):
bone graph and membrane, not always, of course, case by
cases different Some people they're not candidate, but the one
that they candidate with definitely, and that need to be
done at the time of the extraction. If you do
it without placing bone graph then you get bone resolption
(02:57):
and then you might not have sufficient bone or ideal
bone to place for future placement of the implant. So
for audiences important, If so they decide to come to
Columbia Dental or they go some other places, they have
to make sure that that provider has that capacity to
(03:20):
give that option because unfortunately, sometimes patients are coming to
our practices and it's too late so and there is
no bone to place the implant. Of course, there are
other procedures we call it bone augmentation to or sign
and live to enhance the bone, but those procedures are
(03:43):
obviously more extensive and more expensive. Simply by packing a
bone within the socket after the extraction, we can eliminate
all these procedures.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Are there any pro native measures that people can take
prior to getting an implant?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, they have to take care of their thiefs.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Is It's that simple like that, so they're not going
to need the implant. Implant or great. Actually, there are
some studies shows that they are more resistant than natural
tieth to certain pathogens periodontal pathogens. And of course when
(04:29):
you have an implant, you don't have decay. And there
are a study shows that even you choose better with
their corneal teeth than your natural teeth because their cornia
is harder than the enamel. But all of them is
not a justification to take the two od and place
(04:50):
the implant. We prefer patients or taking care of their
teeth simply by brushing floss and going to the dentist
than go through the procedure of getting implant. So we
don't place implant as a preventive manner. It is still
(05:11):
the best way to do it is to take care
of the tief. But if time comes and some of
the tief are not restorable, the good news is that
we do have an implant so and it acts as
good as or much better, according to some studies, better
than natural tief.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I guess what I'm thinking is if someone has let's
say some of the things you were mentioning earlier, bone loss,
gum loss, and you could see that they're going to
need implants probably at some point, is there anything they
can do in the meantime or no, they just wait
it out until it's time.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Of course, is that's the science of periodonteic sis, the
periodontek or we do have period ontees. Obviously in our practice,
what periodontists they do they try to prevent further progression
of the disease, and somehow there are some regenerative procedures
(06:15):
that the periodantists also can use to regain some of
the tissue that had been lost to the gum disease.
But unfortunately, as today date, the pathogenesis of periodontal disease
had not been clearly understood, so the treatment for there
(06:38):
is not really cure or treatment for periodontal disease is
the only the main objective of the periodontal treatment is
to prevent or at least slow down the progression of
the disease.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
What is bionic mastication something else you want to to
discuss today, But we.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Already touched on an implant by anagnostication means there are
people that they end up to having bad teeth, not
just one tooth, but the whole arch. So what we
do is there is a procedure we call it all
land force, so we remove the bad tief strategically replaced
(07:26):
for implant and the patient they are walking with the
bridge that is connected to those for implant and they
never have to have the experience of the experience of
having a removable teeth for denture and the full zirconia
(07:51):
arch that is supported by full implant also shows that
patients they choow better, they more resistance to pathogens than
the natural tief. Interestingly, people, they you have a natural tief,
the recommendation is to come twice a year for cleaning,
(08:15):
but with those prostices, the recommendation to come once a year.
So but we have to unscrew those fixed prostices, clean
it up the implant underneath that professionally and simply put
it back.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Are implants painful?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Implant well, the surgery part of it, it'd be done
under local anesthesia, are needed to be nitrous oxide or
other modality. So pain obviously be controlled during the procedure
any other procedure like you know root canal or simply extraction.
(09:00):
But after the procedure, no, there is no pain because
placing of the implant, especially when we do those immediate
placement of the implant, because we already remove the tool
and we place the implant within the socket, so there
would not be additional pain for it. Go back to
(09:25):
your question about bionagmestication believe or not luckily with somehow
more ahead of other field. But from what I've read
and done a little bit of research, is this is
going on through the whole medical endorsery. So and I
(09:47):
read that, I guess by twoenty twenty nine we're going
to have the artificial heart. So it's going to be
a pump that is going to be probably it would
work more accurate than they are. And you know, you
(10:09):
can you know, controlled by probably some type of you
know control rather than you know it's all the digital
and you know you're connected and and you adjusted or
whatever you have to do. So again we're talking a
little bit of science fiction, but this is something I
(10:33):
do believe, not only bionic mastication that we're doing other
part of our body. I think successfully it can be
replaced by some type of artificial that's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's so exciting, it really is. So what else is
new it Columbia.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Dental prostadantist in water Very we have very nice prostodante.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Because that's where I was born and raised.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Really yes, you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Can't tell by the Waterbury accent that I have.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Now, I didn't know you're from.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, so you have a prostendentist there.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Prostadantis there. Prostadantes are the doctor that they go after
dental school for additional three years training to learn about
the prosthetic dentist. VICH means the crown bridges, implant implants,
supported bridges and crown supported implant. They get all those
(11:35):
being trained very well on implant dentistry. So be lucky
that you know now we have a prostadantist in your hometown.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, that's so wonderful. I'm speaking with doctor Abbas Mohammadi,
founder of Columbia Dental. Again. For all of these services
and more, just go to Colombia Dental dot com. Thank
you for giving back to the community and all the
amazing works. Thank you deal.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Thank you so much Alison for having me
Good morning, Thank you for listening to Community Access. I'm
Alison de Merz. My guest in studio today is doctor
Abbas Mohammadi, founder of Columbia Dental. Good morning, doctor, Good
morning Alison, thank you for being here. So for those
who don't know about Columbia Dental, let's just start out
with you have twelve offices.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Twelve offices, Yeah, we do have twelve location through a
state of Connecticut from Norwalk to Enfield and from New
Milfare to Manchester, Connecticut, so twelve locations. We cover both
ninety one and eighty four So doesn't matter which roudio
troup traveling through the state, there are going to be
(00:41):
some Columbia Dental that can provide services.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And you're opened pretty much three hundred and sixty five
days a year.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Correct. In our Manchester location, we are open every single day.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So today I'd like to talk about a couple of
new things. The first being regenerative dentistry.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes, regionally their dentistry. That means we losing a tissue
or the bone due to let's say gum disease or
periodontal disease. So there is a science to regenerate some
of the bone laws or tissue laws due to the
disease Wow periodontal disease, another regenerative dentiercy that we do
(01:24):
a lot. We call it bone graph, which means people
that they need they have a bad tieve and they
need the thief to be removed. At the time of
the extraction, we recommend to place bone graph material within
the socket and cover it with the collagen membring. That
procedure called bone graph and by doing that it preserves
(01:49):
the bone. And why we wanted to preserve the bone
because we need bone for placing implant. Implant wasn't that
popular maybe fifteen twenty yearsyears ago. So as the result,
you know, people they just removed the tiev. They didn't
care how much bone is going. Bone resoption would occur
after extraction. But these days we are very conservative in
(02:13):
conservation of the bone because we need the bone for
implant placement. For that reason, this service has been being
provided to all my twelve locations. All my providers are
being trained. Whenever they do extraction. At the time of
the extraction, we always offer the patient to receive the
(02:36):
bone graph and membrane, not always, of course, case by
cases different Some people they're not candidate, but the one
that they candidate with definitely, and that need to be
done at the time of the extraction. If you do
it without placing bone graph then you get bone resolption
(02:57):
and then you might not have sufficient bone or ideal
bone to place for future placement of the implant. So
for audiences important, If so they decide to come to
Columbia Dental or they go some other places, they have
to make sure that that provider has that capacity to
(03:20):
give that option because unfortunately, sometimes patients are coming to
our practices and it's too late so and there is
no bone to place the implant. Of course, there are
other procedures we call it bone augmentation to or sign
and live to enhance the bone, but those procedures are
(03:43):
obviously more extensive and more expensive. Simply by packing a
bone within the socket after the extraction, we can eliminate
all these procedures.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Are there any pro native measures that people can take
prior to getting an implant?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, they have to take care of their thiefs.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Is It's that simple like that, so they're not going
to need the implant. Implant or great. Actually, there are
some studies shows that they are more resistant than natural
tieth to certain pathogens periodontal pathogens. And of course when
(04:29):
you have an implant, you don't have decay. And there
are a study shows that even you choose better with
their corneal teeth than your natural teeth because their cornia
is harder than the enamel. But all of them is
not a justification to take the two od and place
(04:50):
the implant. We prefer patients or taking care of their
teeth simply by brushing floss and going to the dentist
than go through the procedure of getting implant. So we
don't place implant as a preventive manner. It is still
(05:11):
the best way to do it is to take care
of the tief. But if time comes and some of
the tief are not restorable, the good news is that
we do have an implant so and it acts as
good as or much better, according to some studies, better
than natural tief.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I guess what I'm thinking is if someone has let's
say some of the things you were mentioning earlier, bone loss,
gum loss, and you could see that they're going to
need implants probably at some point, is there anything they
can do in the meantime or no, they just wait
it out until it's time.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Of course, is that's the science of periodonteic sis, the
periodontek or we do have period ontees. Obviously in our practice,
what periodontists they do they try to prevent further progression
of the disease, and somehow there are some regenerative procedures
(06:15):
that the periodantists also can use to regain some of
the tissue that had been lost to the gum disease.
But unfortunately, as today date, the pathogenesis of periodontal disease
had not been clearly understood, so the treatment for there
(06:38):
is not really cure or treatment for periodontal disease is
the only the main objective of the periodontal treatment is
to prevent or at least slow down the progression of
the disease.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
What is bionic mastication something else you want to to
discuss today, But we.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Already touched on an implant by anagnostication means there are
people that they end up to having bad teeth, not
just one tooth, but the whole arch. So what we
do is there is a procedure we call it all
land force, so we remove the bad tief strategically replaced
(07:26):
for implant and the patient they are walking with the
bridge that is connected to those for implant and they
never have to have the experience of the experience of
having a removable teeth for denture and the full zirconia
(07:51):
arch that is supported by full implant also shows that
patients they choow better, they more resistance to pathogens than
the natural tief. Interestingly, people, they you have a natural tief,
the recommendation is to come twice a year for cleaning,
(08:15):
but with those prostices, the recommendation to come once a year.
So but we have to unscrew those fixed prostices, clean
it up the implant underneath that professionally and simply put
it back.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Are implants painful?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Implant well, the surgery part of it, it'd be done
under local anesthesia, are needed to be nitrous oxide or
other modality. So pain obviously be controlled during the procedure
any other procedure like you know root canal or simply extraction.
(09:00):
But after the procedure, no, there is no pain because
placing of the implant, especially when we do those immediate
placement of the implant, because we already remove the tool
and we place the implant within the socket, so there
would not be additional pain for it. Go back to
(09:25):
your question about bionagmestication believe or not luckily with somehow
more ahead of other field. But from what I've read
and done a little bit of research, is this is
going on through the whole medical endorsery. So and I
(09:47):
read that, I guess by twoenty twenty nine we're going
to have the artificial heart. So it's going to be
a pump that is going to be probably it would
work more accurate than they are. And you know, you
(10:09):
can you know, controlled by probably some type of you
know control rather than you know it's all the digital
and you know you're connected and and you adjusted or
whatever you have to do. So again we're talking a
little bit of science fiction, but this is something I
(10:33):
do believe, not only bionic mastication that we're doing other
part of our body. I think successfully it can be
replaced by some type of artificial that's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's so exciting, it really is. So what else is
new it Columbia.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Dental prostadantist in water Very we have very nice prostodante.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Because that's where I was born and raised.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Really yes, you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Can't tell by the Waterbury accent that I have.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Now, I didn't know you're from.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, so you have a prostendentist there.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Prostadantis there. Prostadantes are the doctor that they go after
dental school for additional three years training to learn about
the prosthetic dentist. VICH means the crown bridges, implant implants,
supported bridges and crown supported implant. They get all those
(11:35):
being trained very well on implant dentistry. So be lucky
that you know now we have a prostadantist in your hometown.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, that's so wonderful. I'm speaking with doctor Abbas Mohammadi,
founder of Columbia Dental. Again. For all of these services
and more, just go to Colombia Dental dot com. Thank
you for giving back to the community and all the
amazing works. Thank you deal.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Thank you so much Alison for having me
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