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Denver's Leading Dentist for Gum Disease, Root Canals & Implants
When Dentists' Implants Fail, They Come to Me
Last Long Implant is Very Important
Your Bone Matters For Implant
A new jaw.
A new life.
Three stories that show what this really means.
These are real voices — and the clinical truth behind what makes this work.
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"Most patients come to me after years of patched-together dentistry — temporary fixes that kept failing, one tooth at a time. All-on-4 is not a dental procedure. It is a structural restoration of the entire jaw. We place four precisely angled implants that engage the densest available bone, and from those four points, we rebuild everything above. The patient leaves the same day with a full set of fixed teeth. Not removable. Not temporary. Fixed."
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— Dr. Dana Ellis · Periodontics · Endodontics · Implantology ·
40 years in Denver
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Only 18 min from Cherry Creek
"What Linda and Ray share is not unusual. Most of my All-on-4 patients come here after they have already failed somewhere else. That is not a criticism of anyone — it is simply the reality that full-arch implant surgery requires a very specific combination of surgical, periodontal, and prosthetic expertise working together. When all three are in one room, outcomes change. That is what I offer. Three specialties. One doctor. No referrals — and no gaps in accountability."
— Dr. Dana Ellis · Three Specialties. One Doctor. Zero Referrals.
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Linda, Nurse practitioner
Age 58 · Nurse practitioner ·Lakewood, CO
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"I am a nurse. I understand medicine. I thought that meant I would know how to make a good decision about my dental care. I had a bone graft done eighteen months ago at another office and then an implant placed on top of it. Six months later the implant was visibly loose. I could feel it moving. The office told me to 'wait and see.' I waited.
It got worse. When I finally came to Dr. Ellis I was embarrassed — not just because of what was happening in my mouth, but because I had let it go so long. He never made me feel that way. He looked at my scans, sat across from me, and said very calmly: 'The graft didn't integrate. The implant lost its base. This is fixable.' That sentence changed my entire experience.
He removed the failed implant, managed the infection, re-grafted with a completely different approach, and gave me a timeline I could actually plan around. Fourteen months later I have a permanent implant that is solid. I've had it checked twice. It is not moving. It will never move."
Linda presented with a failed hydroxyapatite-based socket graft from an external provider, placed without membrane coverage, resulting in non-integration and subsequent implant mobility at the lower right first molar site. Dr. Ellis extracted the failed fixture, debrided the necrotic graft material, and performed guided bone regeneration using a particulate allograft with resorbable collagen membrane. After a full six-month consolidation period with documented radiographic fill, a new implant was placed and restored.
At 14 months post-restoration, bone levels are stable and probing depths are within normal limits at all aspects.
—Ray C.
Age 44 · IT Consultant
Tech Center ​
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"I'll be honest with you — I was done. Two implants. Two failures. One of them came completely out at a dinner service. I was at the pass, in my own restaurant, and my implant fell out. I put it in my pocket and finished the shift. That is how bad things had gotten. I had also done a sinus lift at a different office and they told me it had 'partially rejected.' I didn't even fully understand what that meant except that I was in pain and I had a hole where a tooth was supposed to be.
A friend who is a physician told me to go see Dr. Ellis specifically. He told me Dr. Ellis was different — that he handled the surgery, the gum work, and the root issues all himself, nobody gets handed off. That's what changed my mind about trying again.
Dr. Ellis found that the first two implants had never properly osseointegrated — the placement angles were off and there was chronic low-grade infection around both sites for probably a year before they finally failed. He cleaned everything out, let it heal properly, and placed two new implants with a completely different trajectory. Both are solid. It has been almost two years. I eat whatever I want.
I run a kitchen for a living and I don't think about my teeth once."
4 Decade of Experience
3 Dental Work for 1 Dentist
Your bone is the foundation. Everything built above it — the implant, the crown, the bite, the smile — depends entirely on what lives underneath.
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When bone has been lost to infection, gum disease, or a failed procedure, placing an implant without first rebuilding that foundation is like pouring concrete into sand. It will not hold.
Dr. Ellis understands this at a level most clinicians never reach — because he does not treat one layer at a time. He treats the whole structure.
LANAP laser therapy clears the infection at the root level, eliminating the bacterial destruction that has been quietly hollowing the bone from within.
The bone graft then fills what was lost — rebuilding the foundation, restoring density, creating the solid biological base the implant needs to anchor into for life. The implant goes in only when that foundation is ready. Not before.
Think of it as a pyramid. LANAP cleans and heals the base. The bone graft rebuilds the core. The implant becomes the permanent structure rising from it. Root canal therapy, where needed, seals off any remaining infection pathway so nothing undermines the build from below.
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Every layer serves the one above it.
Dr. Ellis is one of the very few surgeons in Denver who performs all of this himself — periodontics, implantology, endodontics — in one office, one assessment, one pair of hands.
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If your implant is failing, if your graft did not take, if you have been told the situation is too complicated — that is exactly the patient Dr. Ellis was trained for.
Bone 1st
then
Implant
Bone does not lie.
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It either holds — or it tells you exactly what went wrong.
A failed implant is not bad luck. A graft that didn't take is not a mystery. These are clinical failures with clinical reasons — wrong sequencing, missed infection, inadequate foundation, a surgeon working outside their depth.
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The problem is not your bone. The problem is what was done to it.
Dr. Ellis has spent forty years rebuilding what others could not finish. Patients come to him after the first failure. After the second. Some after the third. By then the bone has been compromised multiple times, the trust is gone, and the window for a real solution is getting smaller.
Do not wait for that window to close.
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One failure is a setback. Two is a pattern. Three is a foundation that needed a different surgeon from the beginning.
Come once. Come with the full picture — your scans, your history, your frustration. Dr. Ellis will tell you exactly what happened, exactly what is possible, and exactly what it takes to get this right the final time.
Because there should only be a final time.
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Dr. Dana Ellis
Three Specialties. One Doctor. Zero Referrals.
