Archive for August, 2006
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Best Block Graft Technique?
How can I best avoid traumatizing the mental nerve? My flap will be extending to the mental nerve area. What is the best technique for doing this kind of graft?
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Numbness After Implants
I had dental implants last year for missing teeth. Within hours of the placement of mandibular dental implants, I developed profound numbness on the right half of lower lip.
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BioHorizons Gets Acquired
Last week, HealthpointCapital, LLC (“HealthpointCapital”) announced the purchase of BioHorizons Implant Systems, Inc. (“BioHorizons” or “Company”). BioHorizons designs, produces and distributes oral reconstructive devices including dental implants and tissue regeneration products. BioHorizons, located in Birmingham, Alabama, is one of the fastest-growing companies in the dental industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“The dental implant […]
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Bridge on Narrow Platform Implants?
Mitchell, a dentist, ask us: I have a patient with a severely atrophic mandible. I planned to have 6 regular platform dental implants placed to support a bridge.
Even with a CT scan we could only get 5 narrow platform dental implants
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(3.25/10) in the mandibular anterior. Most of the bone is cortical. Do
you still think […]
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Immediate Loading in the Anterior Aesthetic Zone?
I have discussed a number of dental implant cases where I want to do a one-piece, single stage, immediate provisionalization at the time of tooth extaction in the anterior aesthetic zone.
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Free-Standing Implants To Retain Overdentures?
Larry, a dentist, asks us:
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I am hearing more and more about using free-standing implants to retain
overdentures both in the maxilla and mandible. In the mandible, two
dental implants in the canine areas appears to be the most frequent design. In
the maxilla four dental implants in the canine and second premolar areas
appears to be the most frequent […]
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HA Coated Dental Implants
Dr. Nimchuk asks:
HA coatings on dental implants have been shown to accelerate surface bone apposition, thereby shortening the waiting period for dental implant restoration.We also know the HA surface degrades and in some instances separates, so the trend has been to substitute coatings with roughened surface dental implants, which incidentally also show better and […]
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Locator Attachments or a Bar?
Charles, a dentist asks us:
I have a patient who had four 4×10mm dental implants placed in her mandibular anterior. I was planning on doing Locators and making an overdenture.The gingival connective tissue over the dental implants is very dense and
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thick. From the implant platform to the highest point on the
surrounding gingival is 4mm […]
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Dental Implant Maintenance
Dan, a dentist, asks:
I am having a hard time getting my dental implant patients to return for regularly scheduled routine maintenance of their implants.Most of my dental implant patients are wearing a complete maxillary denture
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and a mandibular implant retained overdenture. I charge them the same
fee that I charge for a routine prophy. I […]
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Ideal Number of Dental Implants
I am a 49-year-old male from the UK and suffering from advanced gum
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disease. I have a few teeth left but they are extremely mobile and they will
have to be extracted.
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Patent Awarded For Tooth Replacement Technique
The United States Patent Office has issued a patent to Dr. Todd E. Shatkin, an Amherst dentist affiliated with the Aesthetics Associates Centre.
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Bridge or Implant?
I recently went to a top dentist in New York and asked him to make me a bridge. He told me that in this day and age it as absolutely ridiculous to have a bridge, and to shave down a healthy tooth when one can have a dental implant. However, I worry about the long term health ramifications of implants, i.e. the metal in the body, complications, etc.
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Maxillary Canine Implant
Dr. Reno, a dentist, asks:To replace a maxillary canine, I create a progressive anterior disclussion involving the maxillary lateral incisor and first premolar prior to the fabrication of the crown for the canine.
This enables the technician to build the maxillary canine crown into a pre-determined progressive anterior disclussion. If I cannot use the lateral […]
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Immediate Loading: The Gold Standard?
It seems like immediate loading is becoming the gold standard in dental implant placement and restoration.
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NobelDirect On Hold?
Any thoughts on Nobel´s recently announced decision to put promotional material for NobelDirect on hold for 60 days?
Last week, Nobel stated that it sent a letter to the Swedish Medical Product Agency (SMPA) proposing steps towards a constructive dialogue and informed the SMPA, that it decided to put promotional material for NobelDirect voluntarily for […]
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