Many celebrities resort to expensive and possibly unusual cosmetic surgeries. While Kate Middleton, Victoria Beckham and Gwyneth Paltrow are among the famous people who like to use bee venom for the face, their skin usually looks flawless. Others chose snail slips as a common ingredient in many cosmetic procedures. Some specialists claim to be a powerful moisturizer and also have anti-aging properties. It also helps people get rid of hyperpigmentation and impurities. Sounds like a miracle cure, doesn’t it? Anyway – the latest in the world of beauty is diamonds… Women resort to all kinds of treatments that include “diamonds” from facial peeling products to body care products, and now also teeth – to achieve the perfect desired smile. Diamonds may look great on the ring, but they can also make wonders for your skin.

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First, the reason that dentistry is at a higher cost in the Western world, especially in the United States, is liability, Sargon Lazarof, DDS explains. (more…)

Sargon Lazarof, DDS  Cosmetic Dentistry & Dental Implant Specialist states, “As we get older, we get more stressed and tend to grind our teeth while we sleep, (more…)

Sargon Lazarof, DDS  Cosmetic Dentistry & Dental Implant Specialist shares, “By the time we reach our 50s, five decades of coffee, wine, cigarettes, (more…)

Music is therapeutic, and not just for patients. Sargon Lazarof, D.D.S., says at the end of a stressful day, there’s nothing better than strumming his guitar and singing. It helped pay his way to an undergraduate degree, and now it’s helping his patients.

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Brandy survived domestic abuse and bulimia – but her ruined teeth were a permanent reminder of the trauma she’d suffered. The Doctors arranged for Brandy to see a dentist in hopes of giving her back her smile, and now she’s returned to show us the results! Does Brandy have a new mouth to go with her new life? (more…)

Where does a Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia go for dental work? To Dr. Sargon Lazarof at the Sargon Dental & Implant Institute in Encino. Lazarof is the inventor of Ultratooth, an FDA-approved dental implant procedure that can be completed in one hour and provides a new tooth with full functionality immediately after the surgery. (more…)

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Your smile conveys so much information. It expresses happiness, can mask sadness, will indicate sarcasm, and often conveys warmth. Your smile is the feature that can light up your entire face and is often returned by whomever you may flash a grin at. But there are daily things you are doing that will ruin your smile, the majority of which involve some sort of damage to the teeth. Chances are, you are guilty of one, two, or six of these behaviors, and you are slowly and steadily lessening the general awesomeness of your smile. (more…)

It’s always struck me as odd that the dental and medical systems are so separate. Oral health and overall health are closely interlinked, and the mouth is just as much a part of the body as anything else. A commentary in Health Affairs (The Dental-Medical Divide) by Elizabeth A. Mertz, a dental professor at UCSF does a good job of laying out the current state and what to expect going forward. While I learned from the article and agree with many of the conclusions, I do think it’s important that dentistry continue to deviate in some ways from the path followed by the medical profession. (more…)