Winter Park, Florida · Prosthodontist-led implant care
Most implant cases are planned from the bone up. We plan them from the smile down — the finished tooth is designed first in software, and the implant is placed to serve it. That order is the difference between a tooth that works and one that disappears.
What we replace
Every case starts the same way: a 3D scan, a digital design of the finished result, and a written plan you take home before anything is scheduled.
A titanium root and a custom ceramic crown. The neighboring teeth are left untouched — the quiet advantage over a conventional bridge.
Read more →02A full upper or lower set carried on four to six implants and screwed into place. It does not come out and it does not cover the palate.
Read more →03Two to four implants anchor a denture with locator attachments. It snaps in, stays put while you eat, and lifts out for cleaning.
Read more →04In selected cases the tooth comes out, the implant goes in and a provisional is fitted in the same visit. You never leave without teeth.
Read more →05Ridge preservation, block grafting and sinus elevation rebuild the foundation so the implant can sit where the tooth belongs.
Read more →06Loose screws, a bridge that never fit, an implant angled where no crown can rescue it. A full workup and an honest answer.
Read more →Full-arch restoration
Full-arch is where details compound. Every implant position is decided in software against a CBCT scan and a digital design of the finished teeth, then transferred to the mouth with a printed surgical guide.
For the final prosthesis we capture implant positions with photogrammetry rather than a conventional impression — which removes the tray, the material distortion, and most of the remakes that follow from them.
The digital workflow
Nothing here is technology for its own sake. Each step replaces something that used to depend on estimation, memory or a second appointment.
A 3D volume of bone, nerve and sinus — measured, not estimated.
The finished teeth are drawn first; implants positioned to carry them.
A printed guide transfers the plan to the mouth within a millimeter.
Implant positions captured optically — no tray, no impression distortion.
The final restoration is milled to the verified design and secured.
Before & afters
Most patients arrive having worked around a missing tooth, a loose denture or a bridge that failed, sometimes for years. These are this practice’s own cases.
A failing upper and lower dentition, rebuilt as a fixed full archWorn, decayed and mobile teeth in both arches, replaced with a fixed implant-supported arch top and bottom.
Clinical photographs of patients treated at this practice, published with their permission. Individual results vary; what is achievable in your case is determined only after an examination and a CBCT scan.
In his own words
Two segments recorded for Glidewell’s continuing-education series, in which Dr. Resnik explains to other dentists the decisions this practice makes on every implant case.
He teaches this
Dr. Resnik teaches implant surgery and prosthetics to other dentists — on faculty at three universities, and as a lecturer on guided full-arch surgery for continuing-education programs around the country.
It is a useful test of a clinician. Teaching a technique to a room of practising dentists means being able to defend every step of it, including the steps that are inconvenient.
Why a prosthodontist
Excellent general dentists place implants every day. The distinction is not skill — it is that a prosthodontist is trained specifically in how the finished teeth are engineered, and plans backwards from there.
The usual sequence
How we plan
Christopher R. Resnik, D.M.D., M.D.S.
Winter Park, Florida
Meet your prosthodontist
Practice limited to prosthodontics & oral implantology
Dr. Resnik completed a three-year prosthodontics residency at the University of Pittsburgh, where he served as Chief Resident and earned a Master of Dental Science. His thesis compared the primary stability of tapered and parallel-walled implants in poor-quality bone — the exact situation that decides whether a case can be loaded early or should be left alone to heal.
He teaches what he practices. He holds associate faculty appointments at Temple University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Louisville, instructs surgical and prosthetic labs for continuing-education courses, and runs live-surgery training for other dentists. He is a contributing author to Elsevier implant dentistry textbooks, including Misch’s Contemporary Implant Dentistry and Avoiding Complications in Oral Implantology.
Common questions
A fuller set lives on the FAQ page — these are the five that come up in almost every consultation.
Usually, yes. "Not enough bone" describes today's anatomy, not a verdict. Ridge grafting, sinus elevation and tilted implant positioning each solve a different version of the problem, and a CBCT scan tells us which one applies.
A meaningful number of second-opinion patients turn out to be straightforward once the anatomy is measured in three dimensions rather than estimated from a flat X-ray.
Surgery is done under local anesthetic, with IV sedation available. Most single-implant patients describe the following day as easier than an extraction and manage with over-the-counter medication. Full-arch surgery is a larger event and comes with a defined recovery plan and a number you can call over the weekend.
In selected cases, yes — a fixed provisional is placed the same day, so you do not leave without teeth. Whether that is safe depends on how firmly the implants seat in your bone at the moment of placement, which is measured during surgery. If the numbers are not there, we protect the result and stage it.
The implant itself is designed to be permanent, and long-term studies of well-maintained implants report survival in the mid-to-high nineties over ten years. The restoration on top is the wearable part: screw-retained designs are built to be removed and serviced without cutting anything off.
It depends on your anatomy, not on the name of the treatment. Four implants support a full arch for many patients; others do better on six or more, based on bone quality, bite force and what the finished teeth have to do.
The number and the positions come out of patient-specific planning against a CBCT scan and a digital design of the result — not out of a package.
No. Something is in place throughout — a provisional crown, a temporary bridge, or in full-arch cases a fixed provisional arch fitted on the day of surgery. You do not leave the practice with a gap.
It depends on the number of implants, whether grafting is needed and which material the final restoration is made from — which is why we do not publish a single number. You receive a written, itemized estimate at the consultation, separating surgical from restorative fees.
A consultation includes an examination, a 3D scan and a written, itemized plan. If implants are not the right treatment for you, we will say so and tell you what is.
