A Nassau County dentist says he is the first in Northeast Florida to use a federally approved dental robot to assist in surgery.
Dr. Bradley Hall has installed Neocis Inc.’s Yomi Robotic Dental System at his dental and implant practice, Amelia Perfect Smile, located at 5211 S. Fletcher Ave., Suite 230 in Fernandina Beach. Yomi received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2022.
“After 35 years of placing implants freehand, I will never go back to placing implants without robotic guidance,” Hall said, adding that the use of robots in implant surgery is “clearly the future.” He said there is.
Similar to the Global Positioning System or GPS, the $220,000 Yomi can “plan and customize treatment plans for each patient,” according to a news release. The system includes software that downloads individual surgical plans to the robotic arm, “providing guidance to dental surgeons as they perform implant surgery.”
Implant procedures that previously took weeks can now be done in one go, with patients experiencing “little to no” discomfort or downtime. Hall said patients have accepted the system. Insurance that covers implant surgery also covers robot-assisted surgery.
“It can turn a very skilled surgeon into a complete surgeon. I’ve gotten a lot of compliments,” Hall said.
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For more information, contact Amelia Perfect Smile at (904) 491-8005 or visit ameliaperfectsmile.com.
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UF Health/Mayo Jacksonville
A University of Florida Health physician and his team have launched a nonprofit organization to help connect patients to federally approved regenerative medicine clinical trials. Five of them are being performed at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.
According to UF, the number of cell-based therapies (introducing healthy cells into the body to replace diseased or damaged cells) is increasing. However, patients may have difficulty determining whether a particular clinical trial is legal and regulated.
Dr. Keith March, director of the University of Florida Center for Regenerative Medicine, came up with the idea for TrueTrials, a free, user-friendly website with a searchable list of approved clinical trials. March, a practicing cardiologist and biochemist, said the website allows patients to “go here…this is a place where you can trust that you’re doing a properly regulated clinical trial.” he said.
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TrueTrials includes only U.S.-based facilities conducting FDA-approved research using cell-based therapies. Patients can be searched by specific disease state or region.
The Mayo-Jacksonville trial is aimed at various treatments for vulvar lichen sclerosus, a chronic skin disease that typically affects the genital and anal areas. Osteoarthritis of the shoulders and knees, which is a degenerative joint disease. End-stage renal disease or advanced renal failure. and erectile dysfunction.
Ascension St. Vincent’s Southside
Six months after Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside Hospital stopped providing obstetric care, one of its two sister facilities in the Jacksonville area has expanded its services.
Ascension St. Vincent Southside Hospital will add six new labor and delivery rooms, recovery rooms and postpartum rooms for mothers to experience all stages of childbirth in one space, according to Ascension. It is said that he did so.
The project, funded by a $5 million gift from local philanthropist Mary Virginia Terry, will supplement the 17 mother-baby rooms already on campus, Ascension said. St. Vincent’s Southside, which delivers nearly 260 babies each month, also offers lactation consultants, wireless fetal monitoring, and more.
Ascension St. Vincent Riverside Hospital stopped providing obstetric care in March, citing a decline in patient numbers and the proliferation of alternative facilities throughout Northeast Florida. Ascension continues to provide obstetric services at hospitals in Jacksonville’s South Side and Clay County.
walmart health
Walmart Health has opened a new clinic on the South Side, making it the fifth location in the Jacksonville area in two years, and each clinic offers primary care, labs, X-rays and EKGs, behavioral health, dental, Provides some specialized services and community medical care.
The new center is located at 4250 Philips Highway, Unit 100, adjacent to the Walmart Supercenter. We will be open seven days a week, weekends and evenings, and offer telemedicine options on Sundays.
Walmart said the expansion comes as the company “continues our commitment to making quality health care more convenient, accessible and affordable for customers across the country.”
To contact the clinic, please call (904) 916-0578.
Wolfson Children’s Hospital
The new president of Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville has a family connection to his new job.
Erin Wolfson is the great-grandson of Morris David Wolfson, a Lithuanian immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1896 and eventually moved to Jacksonville, where he developed a resale business.
The death of his one-year-old son from pneumonia in 1922 inspired Wolfson’s dream of founding a children’s hospital. The Wolfson Family Foundation, established by his other children, made the first $500,000 gift seven years after his eldest son, Wolfson, died, and helped the nonprofit hospital open in 1955, according to the hospital’s website. It is said that it was useful.
Wolfson is the daughter of Karen and Don Wolfson and the grandson of Morris David Wolfson. An Assistant State’s Attorney in the Fourth Circuit State’s Attorney’s Office, she has spent most of her career prosecuting domestic violence, sexual assault, and crimes against children.
Duval County Medical Association
Dr. Ferdinand Formoso has been elected 2023-24 President of the Duval County Medical Association.
He is a board-certified interventional pain therapist as well as a board-certified physical therapy and rehabilitation specialist. He founded his Formoso Spine & Joint Pain Specialists, serving acute and chronic spine and joint pain patients in Jacksonville.
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