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Denver's Leading Dentist for Gum Disease, Root Canals & Implants
Before You Consider
All-on-4
Dental Implants
Read This First
"All-on-4 is a real solution for the right patient. I want to be clear about that. But it is not the right solution for every patient — and in my experience, it is offered far too quickly, far too often, to people who still have teeth worth saving.
Every tooth in your mouth has a history. A root system. A relationship with the bone around it. When that tooth is gone, that bone begins to disappear too — quietly, invisibly, but permanently. What feels like a fresh start can become a long-term loss that limits your options for decades.
All-on-4 is a permanent decision. It should never feel like the easy way out of a complicated situation.
My philosophy is simple: if a tooth can be saved, we save it. If a root can be treated, we treat it. If bone can be rebuilt, we rebuild it. We exhaust every option that preserves what nature gave you before we consider removing it. Because an implant — no matter how well placed, no matter how advanced — is never quite what you were born with.
I am not against full-arch restoration. I perform it. But I will never recommend it to a patient who hasn't first understood what they are giving up — and confirmed that what they are gaining is worth that trade.
Know your options. Ask hard questions. Respect every tooth you still have.
They are worth fighting for."
— Dr. Dana Ellis
From Dr.Ellis
"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."
— Dr. Dana Ellis · Periodontics · Endodontics · Implantology · Three Dental Work for 1 Dentist.
40 years in Denver. Only 18 min from Cherry Creek
All On 4 for 1 Implant
Why Patients Choose Dr. Ellis
Three specialists. One chair.
Implants. Bone Grafting. Gum Care.
Dr. Ellis does it all — NO Referrals, NO Runaround.
All-on-4 is a powerful solution. Dr. Ellis knows that better than most.
He also knows what happens when it fails.
Over nearly four decades, Dr. Ellis has taken on cases other dentists couldn't finish — patients who came in devastated after an All-on-4 arch collapsed, became infected, or never properly integrated with the bone. He has seen it happen. More than once. And he has fixed it more than once.
That experience shapes the way he approaches every full-arch case today.
When possible, Dr. Ellis prefers implant-by-implant placement — one tooth, one implant, one decision at a time. If one implant ever needs attention down the road, the rest of your arch is untouched. You still have options. You are not starting over.
All-on-4 is not off the table. For the right patient, with the right bone, it works. But Dr. Ellis will never recommend it before he fully understands your bone volume, your jaw density, your health history, and your long-term goals. That evaluation is not a formality. It is the difference between an implant that lasts thirty years and one that fails in three.
From Dr.Ellis
"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."
— Dr. Dana Ellis · Periodontics · Endodontics · Implantology · Three Dental Work for 1 Dentist.
40 years in Denver. Only 18 min from Cherry Creek
Why Implants Matter
The Expert Who Has Seen What Fails
Opens with Dr. Ellis's credibility, not with a sales pitch. Touches lightly on failure cases — enough to build trust, not enough to scare. Makes his preference for individual implants feel like wisdom, not criticism of All-on-4. Ends with the brand line.
Bone. Titanium Sensitivity. Zirconia.
This is the technical authority section. Bone grafting is positioned as elite in-house expertise, not a routine add-on. Titanium sensitivity is handled honestly — it's real, it matters for some patients, and zirconia is the answer. But the message is consistent: the material only matters if the bone is ready.
The Wrap
Punchy list of differentiators. Ends with two closing lines — one on bone longevity, one with the tagline. Clean exit, strong recall.
Why Patients Choose Dr. Ellis
"After two failed implants at other offices, I was told I was simply 'not a good candidate' and that was that. No explanation, no next steps — just a door quietly closing. What I didn't know was that dental implant techniques had evolved significantly, and not every dentist had kept up. Dr. Ellis had.
From the moment he reviewed my case, it was clear I was sitting across from someone who hadn't stopped studying the day he got his license. He walked me through approaches I'd never heard of, explained why my previous implants had failed, and outlined a treatment plan that actually addressed the root cause.
The implant he placed has now been solid for three years. But what stays with me isn't just the outcome — it's realizing that the difference between losing a tooth forever and keeping it often comes down to whether your doctor is still learning. Dr. Ellis is.
I only wish I'd found him before I lost the years I did."
Our Vision
An implant is not just a tooth.
It is the only restoration dentistry has that asks your body to grow around it — to accept it as bone, to hold it the way nature once held a root. When it works, it is extraordinary. When it fails, the damage goes deeper than most patients realize. Lost bone. Compromised tissue. And a jaw that becomes harder to treat every time another attempt falls short.
If you have failed once, that is not your fault. Implants fail for reasons. Bad bone density. Wrong placement. Inadequate grafting. A case that needed a specialist and got a generalist.
If you have failed twice — or three times — the reason has not been found yet. That is where Dr. Ellis begins.
He has spent nearly four decades treating the cases other dentists could not resolve. Bone that was lost and rebuilt. Implants placed in jaws that had been told nothing could be done. He does not start with what he can offer. He starts with why it failed — and he uses 3D cone beam imaging, microscope-level diagnostics, and 35 years of peridontic, endodontic, and surgical experience to find that answer before he does anything else.
Bone grafting is not a workaround. In the right hands, it is the foundation that makes everything else possible. Dr. Ellis performs advanced grafting in-house — no referrals, no gaps in care, no one else making the decisions that affect your outcome. When the bone is ready, the implant has somewhere to live.
Teeth matter more than people say out loud. They affect how you eat, how you speak, how you walk into a room. Patients who have been through failed implants carry something — a quiet loss of confidence in what dentistry can actually do for them. Dr. Ellis has heard that story many times. He does not dismiss it. He takes it as the starting point.
Failed once. Failed twice. Bone graft didn't hold.
Come see me.
Not this time.