Dr. Isabel Llamozas, DMD, AIAOMT, is an accredited biological dentist with a practice focused on biological and regenerative oral surgery and airway-centered care. Her work begins with a simple premise: the mouth is not separate from the rest of the body. It is the entry point to the body, the beginning of the airway and digestion, and a place where inflammation can develop quietly and influence the broader system. At her Chicago practice, Wrigleyville Dental, she brings biological dentistry, regenerative oral surgery, airway-focused care, and patient education together under one whole-body philosophy.
This perspective places her naturally within the mission of “Bye Ol’ Dentistry,” the Lolli Brands Entertainment documentary exploring a more biologically informed future for oral healthcare. Rather than treating only what is visible, Dr. Llamozas looks for what may be driving the problem in the first place.
“Treating only what we can see, without understanding what’s driving it, is a disservice to the human body,” she says. “The goal is always to understand why something is happening.”
A Career Built Around Asking Why
Dr. Llamozas’ clinical perspective has been shaped by more than fifteen years of dental and surgical experience across Venezuela, Spain, and the United States. Exposure to different healthcare systems strengthened a discipline that continues to guide her work today: understand what is actually happening before deciding how to intervene.
She earned her DDS from Universidad Santa María in Caracas in 2009 before completing a postgraduate specialty in Oral Surgery and Implantology at the Universitat de Barcelona. After relocating to Chicago, she completed the Advanced Standing Program at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Dentistry, earning her DMD and graduating as a member of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Honor Society.
Three countries exposed her to three different ways of approaching the same anatomy, strengthening the curiosity that continues to shape her practice.
“I practice from data and research, and I keep asking why. Curiosity is what keeps me going. You trace it back to the source, you connect the pieces of the puzzle, and then you can actually resolve something.”
Biological Dentistry and the Body’s Capacity to Heal
That curiosity eventually took Dr. Llamozas deeper into biological dentistry. She is accredited through the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology and SMART certified in the safe removal of mercury amalgam.
Her advanced education includes the 4th Maxi Residency in Biological Dentistry, Biological Surgery and Implantology under Prof. Shahram Ghanaati, awarded through Tufts University Dental Continuing Education and held in Boston and Frankfurt. She continues under his mentorship in Level II, a stage reached by a small number of clinicians in the field.
Dr. Llamozas has also completed multiple sessions of the Holistic Dental Education Series under Dr. Judson Wall, covering biological extraction techniques, cavitation surgery, zirconia implants, ozone, PRF, regenerative dentistry, and digital workflows. Her regenerative training also includes the Advanced PRF in Regenerative Dentistry course with Dr. Richard Miron.
Underlying that education is a straightforward principle: identify and address what may be interfering with healing, then create conditions that support the body’s own regenerative capacity.
“You remove what’s causing the illness, and then you let the body heal itself,” she says. “We’re taking away the thing that’s been in the way.”
Looking at the Airway From the Beginning
Alongside her focus on biological and regenerative oral surgery, airway health has become one of Dr. Llamozas’ central clinical passions. Her approach looks beyond symptoms such as snoring or poor sleep to examine how breathing patterns, facial development, tongue function, and airway structure may be connected.
For her, that story begins much earlier than adulthood or adolescence. It begins at birth.
“Nasal breathing is not a preference. It’s how we’re built,” she says. “From the first days of life, breathing through the nose filters the air, shapes the palate, guides how the face grows, and influences how well someone sleeps later in life. When that gets disrupted early, everything downstream is built on a compromised foundation.”
A compromised airway may be associated with mouth breathing, fragmented sleep, and poor oxygenation, making early recognition particularly important.
Dr. Llamozas is an Advanced Forwardontics Practitioner certified under Dr. Sandra Kahn. Her work incorporates facial growth guidance and expansion to address structural aspects of airway development. She also completed the Ambassador Program at The Breathe Institute under Dr. Soroush Zaghi, expanding her understanding of tongue mobility and its relationship with breathing and sleep.
Whether working with a developing child or an adult whose facial growth is complete, the objective remains consistent: support airway and sleep function through physiological and conservative approaches whenever possible.
Bringing Whole-Body Dentistry Under One Roof
At Wrigleyville Dental, Dr. Llamozas has built a model designed to connect these different pieces rather than treating them in isolation.
The practice combines biological general and biomimetic dentistry with CBCT-guided diagnostics, airway-first planning, in-house myofunctional therapy, regenerative oral surgery, and ceramic implants. This allows dental structure, breathing, function, and biological considerations to be evaluated as parts of a larger picture.
Yet the part of her work she considers most essential is not a procedure or technology. It is education.
“Educating my patients is a huge part of what I do,” she says. “I want to be a multiplier — to encourage people to take over their health story and take control of it in an educated way. Habits that can last a whole life and nurture longevity.”
For Dr. Llamozas, giving patients the ability to understand their own bodies can extend the impact of a dental appointment far beyond the treatment chair.
Using “Bye Ol’ Dentistry” to Ask Better Questions
That emphasis on education is what drew Dr. Llamozas to “Bye Ol’ Dentistry.”
“This is a movement, and I wanted to lend my voice to it,” she says. “There are people walking around exhausted, or in pain, or watching their child struggle at school, and no one has ever suggested to them that the mouth might be part of the story. I can reach a handful of them one chair at a time. A film can reach the rest.”
She views the documentary as an extension of conversations already happening inside her practice: moments when patients begin connecting symptoms they had accepted as normal with questions they had never previously known to ask.
“Every body tells a story. We’re here to read it and follow it,” she says. “I want to encourage patients of every age to be curious about their own bodies, and to stop normalizing things that should not be normal.”
A child who snores may be assumed to simply outgrow it. An adult who wakes exhausted every morning may eventually accept fatigue as part of daily life. For Dr. Llamozas, changing that familiarity begins with awareness.
“If this film puts that question in someone’s vocabulary, it was worth doing,” she says.
Ultimately, her vision extends beyond creating healthier mouths. It is about helping people understand the connections within their own bodies and giving families the knowledge to advocate for their health across generations.
“Every patient who understands their own body becomes someone who can protect it,” Dr. Llamozas says. “That’s what I want to leave behind. Not only healthier mouths, but people who know how to ask better questions — for themselves, and for their children.”
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3256 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60657
(773) 975-6666
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