Expert Case Planning Support
Our Clinical Advisors
Each of our clinicians has many years of dental practice experience, placing implants and restorative dentistry.
Dr. Joe Mehranfar
Clinical Advisor
Dr. Joe Mehranfar graduated from the Temple University School of Dental Medicine in Philadelphia, and received his Masters in Microbiology from Southern Illinois University. He is acknowledged as an expert in dental implants, and has completed advanced coursework and training in dental implantology. Over the course of the last seven years, Dr. Mehranfar has placed more than 1,000 implants, and he stays at the forefront of implant science by regularly taking continuing education courses in the field.
Dr. Mehranfar remains active in professional groups, serving as Secretary of the Implant Division of the American Dental Education Association. He also holds a Mastership from the American Academy of Implant Prosthodontics (for which he serves as the local Arizona director), and he is an adjunct faculty member at the Midwestern University, College of Dental Medicine, in Glendale, Arizona.
Dr. Daniel Haghighi
Clinical Advisor
Dr. Daniel Haghighi graduated in 1990 from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed a one-year general practice residency program at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. He then returned to Cleveland to attend a two-year fellowship in geriatric dentistry at University Hospitals of Cleveland. He is the past department chair of surgery at St. John’s Medical Center in Longview, Washington, and a Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists.
Dr. Haghighi has lectured extensively on topics related to both the surgical and prosthetic management of dental implant patients, and has broad experience managing medically complex cases. He is an affiliate instructor at the University of Washington School of Dentistry, and holds several patents relating to dental implant spacing devices.
PROSTHETICALLY-DRIVEN CASE PLANNING
Our clinicians use a “Prosthetically-Driven” approach to case planning. This means that they begin their analysis of the treatment plan by first determining the optimal restoration for the missing tooth or teeth. The aesthetics and function of the final restoration is significantly affected by the placement of the implant. Even minor changes in implant placement or angulation can create substantial problems for a successful restoration.
Any treatment plan or surgical guide design proposed by one of Scan Implant Guide’s clinicians is only a suggestion, and the treating dentist remains completely and solely responsible for the diagnosis, prognosis and course of treatment for the patient.
Please see “Terms of Use/Limitation of Liability”.
When you request treatment planning assistance, you will be asked to provide additional information about the patient, including:
- Final prosthetic plan for the restoration
- Photo of the adjacent teeth and their gingival margins to determine the planned gingival margin of the final crown
- Patient’s gingival biotype
- Smiling photo of patient for restorations in the aesthetic zone
- Full mouth impression (even if only working on the mandible)
- Full scan, with bite registration and photos without wax up
- Photo of (and the occlusion for) the surgical site
- For edentulous cases, a scan of the arches with the dentures in place