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Retromolar bone grafts prior to implant placement: Outcomes and complications (Part I)
Andreas Sakkas, Carsten Winter, Frank Wilde & Alexander Schramm, Germany
The dental rehabilitation of partially or totally edentulous patients with oral implants has become common practice with reliable long-term results.1 However, unfavourable local conditions of the alveolar ridge due to atrophy, periodontal disease, trauma sequel, malformation or neoplasia may cause insufficient bone volume, which may complicate the therapy of the masticatory function with dental implants.2 When alveolar ridges lack the appropriate bone volume, additional surgical reconstructive procedures are required...
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GTR and recession coverage in immediate implantation
Dr N. Papagiannoulis, Dr E. Sandberg & Dr M. Steigmann, Germany
Among the difficulties and challenges in immediate implantation, local inflammations of the hard or soft tissue are major criteria on how we implant. The behaviour after implantation, especially of the soft tissue, is only predictable when the diagnosis and the treatment concept are correct. Gum recessions are potential contra-indications for immediate implant placement...
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While in the early stages of implantology, issues concerning the “healing” of artificial abutment teeth were in the focus of interest, those early complications have become rare due to improved implant forms, optimised minimally invasive diagnostic and surgical techniques, and especially because of improved implant surfaces...
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Fast & Fixed as an alternative treatment in cases of periodontitis profunda
Dr Regina Schindjalova, Varna, Bulgaria
In the last few years, the Fast & Fixed therapy concept has proven itself an effective alternative treatment to conventional tooth implantation methods. This is especially true for patients who suffer from the severe effects of periodontitis profunda, i.e., the loss of all teeth, as shown in the case of a 44-year-old patient which is described below...
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The use of the LiteTouch Er:YAG laser in peri-implantitis treatment
Prof. Tzi Kang Peng, Taiwan & Prof. Georgi Tomov, Bulgaria
With oral implantology experience its Renaissance, the growing incidence of peri-implantitis worldwide today is point of interest for both scientists and clinicians. Peri-implantitis is a disease of inflammatory nature which leads to the loss of the implant when left untreated.11,24 The aetiological factors of peri-implantitis are very similar to periodontitis.2,24 Different treatment modalities for the inflammatory soft tissue and bone lesions in peri-implants have been proposed—antibiotics, antiseptics, mechanical debridement, and surgical procedures have been suggested, depending on the grade of the clinical and radiographic manifestations.6,7,10,16,17...
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Safe interdisciplinary navigation
Dr Frank Schaefer, Dr Dagmar Schaefer, Dr Mike C. Zäuner & Master Dental Technician Jürgen Sieger
Every day we hear about new curative procedures and their successful application in therapy. The new media broadcast information about medical performances worldwide instantly to wide sections of the population. This environment places greater demands on us, the operators, to meet our patients’ increasing expectations for high quality...
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Peri-implantitis prophylaxis by sealing implant gaps and hollow spaces
Prof. Dr Dr Claus Udo Fritzemeier, Germany
In the last decades, implantology has emerged as one of the most innovative enrichments in the field of dentistry. Considerable increase is expected in the future. Compared to earlier preprosthetic methods, endosseous implantology is a simple treatment that usually is not very stressful for the patients and offers many advantages, e.g. the physiological transfer of chewing forces into the bone, which—under certain conditions - even generates renewed bone growth…
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The Nobel Biocare Global Symposium 2013 in New York saw more than 2,000 dental professionals from around the world come together to explore the latest developments in implant dentistry under the theme “Designing for Life: Today and in the Future”...
