Family Dentistry

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Family Dentistry in Santee operates from 9510 Cuyamaca Street under the Confident Smiles clinical group, combining general, implant, and oral surgery services in a single suite. Pre-surgical cone-beam CT scans for implant-angle planning integrate with the diagnostic imaging infrastructure at Sharp Rees-Stealy Santee Radiology when supplemental medical imaging is required. Dr. Edgar Rivera, a UCLA School of Dentistry graduate with additional certification from the California Implant Institute, leads the surgical placement team. The in-house laboratory fabricates same-day provisional restorations, reducing turnaround between implant-body insertion and final prosthetic delivery. Post-operative jaw-rehabilitation exercises for All-on-4 full-arch patients dovetail with the musculoskeletal therapy programs at Select Physical Therapy - Santee on Mission Gorge Road. Full-arch zirconia hybrid prostheses seat on four to six implant bodies placed at angulations between 30 and 45 degrees to maximize cortical bone engagement in the posterior maxilla.