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today, increasing expectations in terms of shorter treatment times are a major demanding for dentists and dental technicians. The challenge for the practitioner is to obtain an immediate temporary restoration added to the implant placement with an ideal aesthetic result in the shortest possible treatment time. Also, for many years, practitioners and patients have been concerned about bone resorption, leading to reduced retention and, there- fore, stability of conventional dentures. Full-arch implant- supported fi xed dental prostheses may provide more comfort and substantial improvements in prosthetic func- tion, adaptation, and stability compared to conventional treatment options. In this issue of implants—international magazine of oral implantology, you will find some interesting patient cases that address these very issues...
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Immediate aesthetic single-unit anterior restoration using a Grand Morse implant
Dr Luis Honorato Schmied, Chile
Patients’ increasing expectations in terms of shorter treatment times are a major challenge for dentists and dental technicians. To support dental professionals in providing quality care faster, the Neodent Grand Morse implant system offers three implant designs, including Helix GM, all featuring the innovative hydrophilic Acqua surface. This maximises primary stability and predictability in immediate restoration protocols...
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The transparent gingiva project—Non-invasive measurement of the height and width of the peri-implant soft tissue using an enhanced digital merging methodology
Drs Ariel Savion, Serge Szmukler-Moncler & Roni Kolerman, Israel
Digitalisation has penetrated the dental implantology field extensively, considerably changing how patients are treated. Widespread access to digital tools has expedited clinical research focused on peri-implant soft tissue.1–4 CBCT uses a digitalisation process to provide a 3D visualisation of the bone and soft tissue;2, 5 however, the radiation emitted drastically limits its use in clinical research. Intra-oral scanning generates an accurate image of the external envelope of the gingiva, and the absence of emitted radiation and its user friendliness make it a valuable tool in clinical research...
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Immediate loading of a final fixed prosthesis in the edentulous maxilla on Straumann BLX implants
Drs Kerem Kilic, PhD & Erdem Kilic, PhD, Turkey
For many years, practitioners and patients have been concerned about bone resorption leading to reduced retention and therefore stability of conventional dentures.1 Full-arch implant-supported fixed dental prostheses may provide more comfort and substantial improvements in prosthetic function, adaptation and stability compared with conventional treatment options.2...
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Immune sustainability on titanium implants? Osteoimmunology and osseointegration as an interplay of dissolved titanium particles
Drs Johann Lechner, Fabian Schick & Florian Notter, Germany
Bone-to-implant contact (BIC) is considered an essential requisite for implant stability and clinical success. The death of local bone marrow cells due to chronic stimulation as a result of unfavourable factors such as inflammation of the jawbone leads possibly to chronic osteoimmune dysregulation. Bone marrow defects of the jaw (BMDJ) surrounding dental titanium implants (Ti-Impl), in combination with impaired BIC, are difficult to detect in X-rays and have thus been little researched....
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“We fight dirty” How a simple quality assessment on dental implants became a grassroots movement
Interview with Dr Dirk U. Duddeck
The CleanImplant Foundation performs tests on the quality of randomly selected, sterile-packaged dental implants in cooperation with accredited testing laboratories. We interviewed Dr Dirk U. Duddeck, Managing Director and Head of Research of the foundation...
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Dr Shivi Gupta (Fig. 1) graduated in dentistry from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 2002. She completed a one-year advanced education in general dentistry residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio before moving to San Diego in 2004. After joining her current practice partner as an associate in 2010 in a newly founded practice, she became a partner in 2015. Dr Gupta conducted team trainings, attended continuing education courses and brought new services to the practice. She has always been interested in teach- ing others and sharing her knowledge on digital dentistry...
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Bringing new end-to-end digital workflows to dental practitioners—DEXIS IOS Solutions expands its portfolio
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DEXIS IOS Solutions is pleased to announce the expansion of its portfolio and ecosystem through new digital end-to-end workflows. The new and enhanced workflows are designed to align with the objective of DEXIS IOS Solutions to support dental practitioners in accelerating their workflow, resulting in increased productivity and improved patient experience. To reinforce this objec- tive, DEXIS IOS Solutions is focused on three crucial principles: ease of use, productivity and practice expansion. Practitioners can now easily expand their range of services through aligner and denture treatments as well as in-house printing, offering their patients personalised and innovative care....
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Dr Alberto Monje, who is an associate professor in the periodontics department at the International University of Catalonia in Barcelona in Spain, has been honoured with the prestigious Innovation in Implantology Research prize, sponsored by MIS Implants Technologies and awarded by the International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (IADR). This recognition celebrates Dr Monje’s remarkable achievements and scientific contributions as an independent researcher. Despite being in his mid-thirties, he has already participated in over 100 research publications...
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The 7th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Metal Free Implantology (ISMI) took place in Munich on 5 and 6 May 2023 under the guiding theme “Ceramic Implants meets Aesthetics”. Under the scientific direction of Dr Karl Ulrich Volz/Kreuzlingen (CH) and Dr Dominik Nischwitz/ Tübingen (DE), the congress offered participants an enormously multi-layered, varied and top-class programme on the topic of ceramic implants and also highlighted biological aspects of metal-free implantology...
