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…
Some High-Yield Facts about Implant Forces
I've been reading lately about the various forces we as implant surgeons need to consider. I'll admit this is an aspect of learning about dental implants that can be a…
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…
Conical Connection (Morse Taper)
Why we like the Conical Connection
I remember when I started placing implants feeling really confused about all the different types of connections among not only implant brands, but implant lines within individual brands. There was…
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 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…