FOR REFERRING DOCTORS
Send us the implant chapter. We send the patient back.
Referral relationships live or die on one question: does the specialist respect the referring practice? Here’s our answer in writing. When you refer for implant surgery, grafting, or full-arch treatment, your patient’s hygiene, restorative work, and general care stay with you — we handle the implant episode, communicate at every milestone, and return the patient to your schedule. No quiet conversion of your patients into ours. Winchester is a small town; we intend to be here a long time.
What we take on
Single and multiple implant placement and restoration — routinely fully guided; full-arch (All-on-4/All-on-6) including same-day conversion; site development — socket preservation, ridge augmentation, sinus lifts, PRF protocols; complication management and failing-implant rescue, including cases placed elsewhere; and the medically complex or dental-phobic patients who need IV sedation or general anesthesia (with a licensed anesthesiologist in-center) to get treatment done at all. Prefer a different division of care for your patient? Note it on the referral and Dr. Oestervemb will call you directly to align on the arrangement.
How to refer
Call or text (540) 450-2101 with patient name, contact, reason, and any imaging — we accept digital files in all common formats; if you don’t have CBCT, we’ll image here at no charge to the patient as part of their consult. You’ll receive a written findings-and-plan letter after the consult, surgical notes after treatment, and a heads-up call on anything unexpected.
Education: courses for practicing dentists
Dr. Oestervemb — double board-certified (ABOI/ID + ABGD) — serves as faculty for the AAID Mid-Atlantic Implant MaxiCourse: 300+ hours of continuing education where dentists spend one weekend a month for ten months learning to place and restore implants, with his focus on integrating digital technology into implant surgery. If you’d like to observe a full-arch conversion day before referring one, ask — seeing the workflow answers most questions.
Zero Bone Loss Concepts protocol
Dr. Oestervemb is a Zero Bone Loss Concepts (ZBLC) Ambassador, having trained with Prof. Tomas Linkevičius at his first U.S. course in 2019. For your referred patients that means vertical soft-tissue thickness is assessed and augmented where under 3 mm, implants are placed at design-appropriate depth with conical connections, restorations are screw-retained zirconia polished subgingivally with no cement margin, and crestal bone levels are documented radiographically at delivery and at follow-up — with those images available to your office on request. The patient-facing version of the protocol is here.