Pennsylvania Center for Dental Implants & Periodontics
suite 211-212, 9880, Bustleton Avenue, Bustleton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Closed · Opens Monday at 9:30 AM
Documented for dental implants in Philadelphia, with dentures on the service list and 6 procedures on file.
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The office occupies suites 211 and 212 in a professional building at 9880 Bustleton Avenue, in the Bustleton section of Northeast Philadelphia. That matters practically: this is a part of the city where you can park, which is not true of the Center City specialty suites, and it puts the practice within a short drive of Somerton, Fox Chase and lower Bucks County. What you find inside is a specialty referral practice rather than a general dental office. Dr. Philip L. Fava II is a board-certified periodontist and implant surgeon, and the work here is surgical: placing implants, rebuilding bone and gum tissue, and treating advanced periodontal disease. The usual route in is a referral out of a general practice, and once the surgical phase is finished you return there to have the crown made and fitted.
Bone grafting is the part of the practice worth understanding before you book. When a tooth is lost, the bone that held its root begins to resorb, sometimes within months, and an implant needs a certain volume of bone to sit still while it fuses. Dr. Fava's published focus is autogenous grafting, using your own bone and soft tissue rather than relying only on processed substitute material, to rebuild that volume before or during implant placement. Sinus lifts fall into the same category: the maxillary sinus sits directly above the upper back teeth, and where it has expanded downward the floor has to be raised and grafted before an implant can be anchored there. This adds months to a timeline. Any quote that skips the grafting question is not a complete quote.
For full-arch cases the practice works with the All-on-4 approach, using Nobel Biocare and Straumann implant systems, where four to six implants angled to catch the densest available bone carry a fixed bridge. It usually means fewer implants and less grafting than replacing teeth one at a time, but it is not universally suitable and the cost range is wide.
Hours skew early. The office opens at 7:00 a.m. Tuesday through Friday, which is useful if you want surgery done before work, with a later 9:30 a.m. start on Mondays and a Friday close at 1:00 p.m. There is a second location in Lower Gwynedd if the suburbs are easier for you. Bring your referring dentist's notes and any recent imaging to the consultation; it shortens the diagnostic visit considerably.