Academics:

Faculty, USC School of Dentistry
Instructor, Behavior Science
Lecturer, Ethics
Graduate, USC School of Dentistry
Inventor/Author, Pinhole Surgical Technique ®
Patent Holder, Surgical Instruments
CE Provider: Professional Responsibility, Infection Control & TMJ
Teacher of the Year 2012, Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC

Special Qualifications:

Master,
    Academy of General Dentistry
Fellow, International College of
    Cranio- Mandibular Orthopaedics
Fellow, International Academy of
    Mini Dental Implants
Fellow, International Congress of
    Oral Implantologists
Fellow, Institute for Advanced
    Laser Dentistry
Permit, Conscious Sedation
    Dental Board of California

Professional Associations:

Member, American Dental Association
Member, California Dental Association
Associate Member, American
    Academy of Periodontology
Member, American Academy of
    Dental Sleep Medicine
Member, American Academy of
    Implant Dentistry
Member, American Dental Society
    of Anesthesiology
Member, American Academy of
    Pain Management
Member, American Academy of
    Sleep Medicine
Member, Academy of Microscope
    Enhanced Dentistry
Member, Special Care Dentistry
    Association

Lectures & Presentations:

San Gabriel Valley Dental Society
San Gabriel Valley Dental
    Assistants Society
San Fernando Valley Dental Society
Mt. Baldy Study Club
Western Dental Society
Indian Dental Society
Chinese Dental Society
Punjabi Dental Society
Academy for Excellence in Dentistry
University of Texas -
    Department of Periodontics
International Academy of
    Mini Dental Implants

Community Service:

Host: SMILETALK, KRLA, KFWB
TV Talk Show Host: Charter
Columnist, Around Alhambra
Columnist, Cascades
Columnist, Spotlight on Montebello
Operation Gratitude

Honors & Recognition:

Doctor of Divinity, Chinese for
Christ Theological Seminary
ADA, CDA Lifetime Membership Award
USC Friends of Dentistry

One-Day Facelift Dentures™
with Optional Mini-Implants

Before	After
Joan, 73, Educator, Alhambra "I feel like I have my natural teeth back. My smile looks like my high school photo."

Before After	Before After
Ruth, 89, RN, Ret'd, West Covina Dr. Chao gave me mini-implants and new dentures all in one day. I didn't feel a thing."	Ann, 68, business woman, Fresno "I drove from Fresno to see Dr. Chao. Now I look great and feel much younger. He was painless. His staff are the most caring people I've ever met."

Before	After
Cherie, 64, RN, Pasadena "I look so much younger and I love my smile. I get compliments almost everyday from my patients and new acquaintances. I have also learned to give painless shots from Dr. Chao."


Cherie & Dr. Chao

What are "One Day Facelift Dentures™?
One Day Facelift Dentures™ is a trademarked, proprietary art and science of creating a virtual facelift by restoring cosmetic form and maximum function through the creation of new dentures. Most often patients also chosen to stabilize these dentures with "mini-implants." With the use of mini-implants the change in appearance and function becomes even more dramatic and life-changing, according to many of our patients. Please see examples of "then" and "now" on this section of our website.

A mini-implant consists of a thin "body," which is shaped like surgical screw, and a "head" that looks like a ball. The body and the ball are in one piece. The mini-implants are, simply put, "screwed" into the appropriate site at the preset safe angle and depth, as predetermined by the use of 3-D cone-beam scan. Each implant also has a "housing" which snaps onto the head of the implants. After all the implants have been placed, the housings are snapped onto the implants. Then the housing is retrofitted into the underside of your denture. This allows the dentures to be held so firmly against the implants that it would be difficult to unintentionally dislodge them from the implants. In fact most patients have difficult removing the dentures the first few days. Think of the coupling effect like how the brass buttons snap together.

The stability induced by mini-implants make it possible for our facelift dentures to duplicate, to the extent possible, the original position of your teeth and the original size and shape of the upper and lower jaws which support your facial muscles, skin, cheek and lips. This is why so many of our patients requested mini-implants as an added cosmetic and functional optimization of their new dentures.