They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. (Andy Warhol)

In 1901, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen received the Nobel Prize for inventing x-rays.

78 Years later, Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield invented the CT-scan. It made him another Nobel Prize winner.

After that, several inventors took it another step further.


We have a digital volume tomograph . It gives a 3-dimensional image of the teeth and jaw. One look at that image and we see whether your jawbone allows implantation and exactly where to insert them.

I always think it looks like a time machine. Every time I see this photo, I start fantasizing about being shoved into that thing and then floating to a moment back in time.

I hope that moment will be the early 17th Century when Rubens was painting his perfectly shaped women.

Returning into the 21st Century, I would land at the National Gallery in front of my own painting....

Dental treatment abroad

Some time ago, I talked to an Irish patient who asked me for an extra extended guarantee. Not for the dental implants and veneers, but for the treatment environment.




He had heard about dental clinics in Eastern Europe, advertising with beautiful photos and stunning treatment results. Patients were picked up from the airport in a Hollywood-style limousine and then brought to..... a poorly equiped backroom, only accesible through a butcher's shop.

I had to repeat several times that our treatment rooms would really, really look much better. Finally, still with some resistance, he booked his dental holidays in Bulgaria.

The day after his arrival in Varna, he had his first appointment in the clinic. I called the reception. His head was in our '3D digital volume tomograph NewTom 3G' so he could not talk to me, but the dental assistant told me that he had said that everything was above expectation...