Dr. Alice Yang is a former faculty and clinical assistant professor at USC School of Dentistry. Dr. Yang received her DDS degree in 2004. She was trained at both departments of Periodontology and Prosthodonlogy. With dual background, her practice is focusing on cosmetic dentistry, dental implantology, microscope enhanced dentistry, and Invisalign.
Dr. Yang is also a researcher and microbiologist, with her degree of MS of Craniofacial Biology at USC. Her research is focusing on the virulence and targeting of periodontal microbes. Her work is published in high-impact journal. She is also a reviewer of peer-review journals.
Dr. Yang is a passionate dentist with integrity. She is warm, friendly, and cares about details. While not working, she enjoys skiing, surfing, out door activities, playing classical piano & gospel music, and ballroom dancing with her husband.
Dr. Hassan Michael Haidar is an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon. Dr. Haidar was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Wichita,Kansas. His education began with a degree in Chemistry from UCBerkeley, graduating among the top in his class. He then moved tosouthern California and received Doctor of Dental Surgery degree fromUCLA School of Dentistry. Dr. Haidar truly enjoyed the surgical aspect of dentistry while in dental school and decided to further hiseducation in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Los Angeles County +University of Southern California Medical Center. He had extensivetraining in maxillofacial trauma, benign tumor resection,maxillofacial reconstruction, dental extractions, dentalreconstruction with dental implants and bone grafting. Heis committed to enhancing patient care by providing his patients withexcellent service.
Socket Preservation, in my personal opinion, is a very important procedure before extracting a tooth. Without socket preservation. We can lost a huge amount of the bone. Also, the primary healing process could result in sharp bone and lake of the keratinized tissue, which is extremely important for the implant gum health.
The collagen plug would hold the nutrients, the blood supply, the immune cells, etc, in place. This would benefit the bone graft we placed earlier underneath. The bone grafting material is serving as a scaffold for the bone cells to grow into and become mature bone.