My name is Harold Bergman and I am an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, with a degree in Oral Pathology. I have been placing and restoring dental implants since 1973, long before they became popular, and have personally placed over 10,000 implants, more than most dentists during their entire careers.  I believe I have the experience and qualifications to advise you in your quest. 

Helping me reduce patient trauma, I was first to introduce the atraumatic Cookie Cutter, Extraction Site, Slit and Transmucosal techniques for placing dental implants.  

In 1987, I patented the Microgroove Collars; those narrow grooves around the necks of implants you see on many implant systems today.

This feature prevents epithelial downgrowth around an implant during healing allowing more bone to attach.

To simplify implant systems and reduce their costs, the same year I developed the highly successful, (99%), FDA, DHW and CE approved, Hydroxylapatite Coated Anchor Push-in Implant System.

 

At the time, other companies limited their dental implant training to only Certified Specialist Oral Surgeons and Prosthodontists.  To give access to general practitioner dentists, I used my knowledge and clinical experience to train dentists just like you, many of whom are now well established and are offering training programs to other dentists.

 Five years late, recognizing the commonly used, flat mating surface between the fixture and the abutment was flawed, allowing bacteria to microscopically grow and leak into the surrounding tissue, I introduced the tapered mating surface which provided an absolute seal between the mating surfaces.  

 

 

This feature was incorporated into the Simpler One and Two Stage, Push-in and Threaded Systems, along with square threads to provide greater implant/ bone contact. 

 

  Knowing that the greater the surface area of an implant, the greater the support the implant would have in bone, 10 years ago, I designed the MAXIMini and the SIMPLI Simpler Finned implant systems.  Both these systems provided 50% more surface area to the intra bony fixture portion of both the inadequately threaded Mini and Conventional implants.  

Over the past 30 years, I have invented many other implant related devices:

The lower profile, Toadstool Mini implant.

The Little Gem Implant Placement Guide to ensure the implants placed in the symphysis of the mandible did not impinge on the mental nerve,

 

The Paralleling Guide, to ensure the same implants placed in the symphysis were parallel, 

 

The Shadow Implant Locator for locating buried titanium implants, and

PREP, the Patient Risk Evaluation Program, an informed consent, software program that takes the guesswork out of Patient Medical Evaluation.