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Archive for March, 2007

• Loose Abutment Screw

  Recently, I completed a case where I forgot to torque down the abutment screw completely. Now it is loose! How do I retrieve this screw and tighten it?

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• Implant Penetrates Adjacent Canine

  Recently I placed a dental implant in the mandibular premolar area and inadvertently hit the mandibular canine.

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• Dental Implants: Crown Margin Short?

  However, I just inserted a crown where the margin was short of the abutment margin. Have any of you experienced this same problem?

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• Odor from Dental Implants

  If there is an odor when the dentist removes the screw to a dental implant, is that normal?

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• Immediate Loading Imperiled?

  Does the recent negative study of Nobel Biocare’s Teeth-In-Hour dental implant protocol merely reflect on Nobel or does this study call into question the reliability of Immediate Loading methods in general?

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• Connecting Implants and Natural Teeth ?

  When I started restoring dental implants 20 years ago, the consensus was not to connect implants and natural teeth because this resulted in intrusion of the natural teeth.

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• PTFE Membrane or Resorbable?

  I placed a dental implant in in the #4, 5 area 5-years ago using a 2-stage surgical protocol. The implant was restored with a cement retained PFM.

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• Tingling Sensation After Implant Placement

  I placed dental implants in #18 and #19 region three weeks ago and the patient has developed tingling/burning sensation in the chin area.

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• Custom-Made Abutments ?

  Recently, I was told by my dentist that the abutment to the dental implant does not fit properly and I was just prepped for a custom-made abutment.

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• Immediate Loading: Determining Primary Stability?

  I did my first extraction and immediate dental implant placement case on tooth #15. It was a broken down, non-restorable tooth with no apparent periapical infection present.

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• Infected Site and Bone Graft

  Upon examination, buccal bone was resorbed and bone graft is a must in order to proceed with dental implant placement. Which grafting technique and time frame should I use?

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• Aplastic Anemia: A Contraindication?

  I have a patient that I would like to treatment plan for anterior dental implants. He is young and healthy except he has aplastic anemia, a condition where bone marrow does not produce sufficient new cells to replenish blood cells.

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• Balloon Device for Ridge Augmentation?

  I recently became aware of a technique for using a balloon type device for expanding the alveolar ridge area prepatory to tissue expansion procedures. Has anybody used this approach for alveolar ridge augmentation?

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• Perspectives on Implant Dentistry

  In this exclusive interview, Michael Sonick, DDS, Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, shares his views on Implant Education, Immediate Extraction, Implant Complications, and much more. This is Part I of a two-part interview.

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• Aesthetic Gingival Architecture Techniques

  He demonstrated how the best time to form highly aesthetic gingival architecture in the maxillary anterior aesthetic zone is at the time of implant placement.

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• Man Gets Teeth From Shoulder

  Need proof for how 3D computed tomography (CT) scans are revolutionizing dentistry? Check out today’s Daily Mail, which reports on an astonishing tale of a a group of surgeons who removed part of a shoulder blade to create a new jawbone and add a whole new set of teeth.

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• Implant Restorations: Case Photos

  	Multiple implant restoration with Bicon Dental Implants >>See Case Photos
  	The following case report shows the restoration of two upper central incisors with PFM crowns cap using the cap in impression technique >>See Case Photos

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