OUR DENTISTRY
Dental Specialties Practiced:
Dr. Maurizio Signorini's practice covers all dental specialties, including hygiene and prevention, conservative dentistry, endodontics, periodontology, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, dental prosthetics, oral surgery, implantology, oral pathology, and aesthetic medicine. He places particular emphasis on research in the field of guided tissue regeneration.
All dental work is performed with the aid of an operating microscope and medical laser sources, for applications that benefit them.
We practice holistic dentistry.
Dentistry is an expression of the care of the individual in his or her entirety and complexity, in accordance with the principle that no disease is caused by factors that are exclusively local and localized to the organ or system that manifests it. This concept expresses the need to treat the mouth and its diseases by addressing the underlying causes, which are often present at a general psychophysical level, or which, starting in the mouth, are reflected in these areas.
Hygiene and Prevention
This is the essential prerequisite for any treatment. Its purpose is not only to establish proper oral hygiene but, above all, to establish in the patient an awareness and understanding of their oral health, a fundamental prerequisite for any subsequent treatment.
Restorative Dentistry
Restorative dentistry aims to reconstruct lost tissue through restorations on natural teeth damaged by caries, restoring the morphology, aesthetics, and functionality of the teeth.
Endodontics
The treatment of the root canal system aims to preserve the residual dental tissue and the teeth in the arch, even if they have lost their intrinsic vitality. The prerequisite for achieving tooth preservation is achieved by achieving sterility within the root canal system and performing a three-dimensional root canal filling, designed to preserve the achieved sterility.
Periodontics
This discipline, closely linked to hygiene and prevention, deals with repairing damage to the dental supporting tissues. The causes of periodontal disease are now known, and its treatment represents an ongoing challenge to achieve long-lasting results, aiming to preserve natural teeth for life. Unfortunately, the multiplicity of factors that determine this desired outcome forces patients and healthcare professionals to work together in concert to achieve the results that current clinical knowledge allows us to achieve. The concomitant genetic predisposition for this disease leads us to believe that the definitive solution can only come from genetic engineering and a future, desirable prophylactic vaccine. Today, understanding all the risk factors allows us to actively treat and combat periodontal disease, fostering patient awareness and understanding of how to control these factors.
Orthodontics
The goal of orthodontics is to restore the anterior and canine alignment, the cornerstones of proper dental relationships and function. The resolution of dental malpositions and their effectiveness also involves other specialties, such as cosmetic dentistry, prosthetics, and periodontology, but for the orthodontist, they are simply a way to correct malposition. Orthodontics is divided into two main branches: interceptive removable orthodontics and fixed orthodontics. The former aims to prevent and correct developmental defects in the splanchnocranial region. It therefore focuses exclusively on ensuring harmonious and correct skeletal development, which will consequently promote proper dental positioning. The latter aims to optimize and finalize interceptive treatment by acting on the movement and subsequent correct alignment of the teeth.
Pediatric Dentistry or Pedodontics
Pedodontics is the treatment and prevention of pathology in the deciduous and mixed dentition. It is a key discipline in promoting a culture of prevention. It is through the cultural education of the younger generations that the foundations for preventing and overcoming diseases are created, for which ignorance is the primary determinant. Understanding the causes of a disease is 50% of the cure, and understanding them from a young age helps make them an integral part of one's cultural background and, therefore, one's habits. The dentist, like a toothbrush, is a tool that, in the hands of an uninformed patient, is unlikely to yield success. Therefore, it is only through cultural education of their patients that professionals can achieve tangible and lasting therapeutic results.
Dental Prosthetics
In recent years, dental prosthetics, in achieving anatomical and functional restoration, have achieved quality levels increasingly similar to those of natural teeth. The technologies and experience we leverage today allow us to create top-quality products and design, based on each patient's needs, the most suitable prosthetic rehabilitation for each individual case, also taking into account the changing aesthetic demands of our society.
Oral Surgery
Oral surgery is the branch of dentistry dedicated to the treatment of all oral conditions that require targeted interventions, whether additive or subtractive, aimed at restoring the patient's health. It now represents the solution to otherwise unsolvable cases. It is increasingly less invasive, yet for some conditions, it represents the only possible solution.
Implantology
Implantology is no longer a new practice in the dental landscape and increasingly represents the most natural solution for restoring a dentition that displays all the anatomical and functional characteristics that most closely mimic human nature. Although it is a common practice and applicable in a large percentage of cases, only proper planning and mastery of tissue regenerative techniques and principles can promote long-lasting osseointegration. Today, there are many techniques available. From traditional surgery to minimally invasive computer-assisted surgery, the placement of osseointegrated endosseous implants represents a rehabilitation technique that, thanks to forty years of clinical trials, has enabled us to master a technique that allows for a functional and aesthetic restoration that closely resembles natural beauty. A future step forward will involve the regrowth of natural teeth through the implantation of totipotent stem cells. Research is already well advanced in this field, but clinical applications will unfortunately not be easily achieved, especially not in the short term.
Oral Pathology
Oral pathology deals with diseases affecting the stomatognathic system and all its appendages. Of particular importance are all macroscopic and microscopic alterations affecting the tissues and organs in the oral cavity. This discipline, in conjunction with pathological anatomy, seeks to prevent the onset of dysplasia (a precursor to tumors) and, when it has not been possible to detect them early, limit the damage with early removal. Oral cancers (the eighth most common in men and the tenth most common in women) are represented by a wide range of superficial alterations of the mucosa or the trabecular bone structure, with specific and known precursors (dysplasias) and risk factors, which, if detected early, can prevent the onset of full-blown cancer.
Aesthetic Medicine
Modern dentistry is, above all, cosmetic dentistry, harmoniously integrating with the aesthetics of the face and smile.
It is no coincidence, therefore, that there is growing interest in aesthetic medicine techniques designed to complement and optimize treatment plans, now beyond just dental care.
The lower third of the face, a well-defined and distinct anatomical region, must be treated as a whole with expertise and skill. We believe we should offer our patients the widest possible range of treatment options.
In this case, aesthetic medicine works in two directions: on the one hand, it optimizes skin function by preventing aging; on the other, it helps correct the imperfections that an inadequate lifestyle and the natural aging processes inexorably cause.
Acupuncture and Laser Therapy
Acupuncture represents the natural complement to our holistic approach. This ancient medical science, now recognized by Western medicine thanks to thousands of clinical studies, is literally changing the quality of life of our patients as a treatment useful for prevention rather than cure; just as it was conceived in its inception.
Among its many applications, we would like to mention sedative analgesia as a treatment used during surgical procedures. This technique allows us to reduce the amount of drugs used, thereby increasing patient compliance, stimulating the natural immune system, and providing pain relief, resulting in fewer side effects such as swelling and pain following surgery.