Digital Implantology – Guided Surgery – 3D Printing
I believe the next "big thing" in dentistry is the implementation of digital dentistry, especially for the dental implant practice. Similar to how Cerec and E4D became wildly popular solutions…
Dental Implants: Speed Matters
The success of dental implants relies on bone adaptation to the titanium implant. Heat generation causes bone die back beyond the osteotomy over the subsequent weeks after implant placement. Minimizing…
What Factors Influence Esthetics of Anterior Immediate Implants?
This article is another landmark study where much of what we know about how to position anterior esthetic immediate implants. With the information here, you should be able to set…
Implant Stability
What constitutes immediate implant stability? There is much literature that cites immediate implant stability, yet there seems to be a disconnect as to what this actually means. How is stability…
Do Immediate Implants Preserve Bone?
Bone Preservation using implants with different geometry placed into extraction sockets M. Sanz et al. This study from Clinical Oral Implants Research in 2010 looks at 2 very important factors…
The Effect of Inter-Implant Distance on the Height of Inter-Implant Bone Crest
16 years ago a landmark study by Tarnow taught us a critical principal of implant dentistry. Tarnow is an oft-cited authority on dental implants and this article is a big…
Immediate Implants – How to manage the Gap…
Many of you may have encountered a clinical outcome similar to the above image. This is definitely a result we never want to see, but in the world of immediate…
Immediate Implants in the Posterior are 94.7% Successful
This article on dental implantology from the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery shows some very promising results with immediate placement of dental implants in the molar region. "Clinical and Retrospective…