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Archive for October, 2005

• Dental Implants and Abutment Screws

  here seems to be some controversy over torquing down the abutment screw when placing dental implants. Most of the dental implant crowns and bridges that I do involve torquing down the abutment and then cementing the crown or bridge.

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• Dental Implants and Buyers Remorse

  No matter how carefully we discuss the dental implant procedure with a patient, sometimes a patient has “buyers remorse” after the surgery.

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• The Academic Who Went to Market

  An inspiring story of an academic, that developed a technique for measuring implant performance, and in 1998 founded a spin-off company with Imperial College London to exploit the idea commercially.

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• Periodontal Disease: Nine Risk Indicators for Tooth Loss

  A study in the November Journal of Periodontology found that tooth
  loss due to periodontal disease is associated with the risk indicators
  of age, male gender, smoking, lack of professional maintenance

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• Dental Implants: Maxillary Canine

  I have replaced some maxillary canines with regular platform implants

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• Determining Primary Stability

  In the part three of the interview with Dr. Balshi, on Teeth-in-an-Hour and Teeth-in-a-Day paradigms, Dr. Balshi discusses Determining Primary Stability.

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• Immediate Loading Restoration Techniques

  In the second part of the interview with Dr. Balshi, on Teeth-in-an-Hour and Teeth-in-a-Day paradigms, some of the techniques used in implant restoration are described.

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• Immediate Loading Protocols

  We recently had a chance to talk with Dr. Thomas Balshi about the surgical and prosthetic protocols that he and Dr. Glenn Wolfinger have developed for the Teeth-in-an-Hour and Teeth-in-a-Day paradigms.

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• Measuring Osseointegration

  We recently had a chance to talk with Dr. Clark Stanford about Measuring Osseointegration, fluoride-modified surfaces, and various other clinical data that relate to the Astra Tech dental implant system.

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• Dental Implants and Distal Extension

  Has anybody tried using dental implants to support distal extension base removable partial dentures?

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• Dental Implant Abutments

  There are other recent studies that have shown no bone loss with an abutment that was step backed from the implant itself. Some manufacturers have already been offering these types of abutments for quite some time. Is this the future direction for abutments?

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• Medications and Dental Implant Placement

  Medications have a profound effect on a patient’s oral condition.

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• Cone Beam CT Scanning for Dental Imaging

  There are many advantages over traditional CT scans…The single most groundbreaking advantage of the i-CAT is easy, convenient and low-cost access to this imaging modality for the patient and the dentist.

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• Dental Implants: Pneumatic Handpieces in Implant Dentistry

  Has anybody tried to remove cemented crowns or bridges with a pneumatic handpiece?

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• Dental Implants: Retrievability

  The concept of retrievablity was something that seemed very important in the “beginnings” of implantology.

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• Dental Implants: Cementation

  What has been your experience with cementing crowns and bridges on implant abutments?

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