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Archive for June, 2007

• Alloderm Graft Failure: What Could Have Been Done?

  I recently had a failure of an Alloderm graft placed via a vertical incision medial to previous extraction site and graft # 10. I felt that I had sufficient relaxation of the pocket to prevent compression.

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• No Cortical Bone: What’s the Prognosis?

  I laid a full thickness flap to place a dental implant in the maxillary canine area. The buccal and lingual cortical plates were healthy and sound. But at the height of the alveolar crest, the bone was cancellous without a cortical bone outer surface. I filled the defect with Dyna putty graft material.

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• Trouble Getting Primary Stability

  I have been having trouble getting good primary stability when I place dental implant fixtures. In order to increase stability, I have been using ligature wire to splint the implant fixtures to the adjacent teeth.

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• Implant Patient Taking Aspirin: Should I Proceed?

  I am planning to place a dental implant immediately following tooth extraction. Patient takes one aspirin daily. His physician refuses to get him off it.

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• Re-Establish Lost Palatal Portion after Failed Bone Graft?

  I placed a mineralized freeze dried bone graft and titanium reinforced membrane over an alveolar ridge deficiency and facial defect #9 area. After about 5 weeks, the membrane became exposed on the palate and eventually I had to remove it.

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• Use of Antibiotics for Implant Placement: Evidence-Based Protocol?

  Is anyone aware of any evidence-based protocol for the use of antibiotics routinely for placement of dental implants?

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• Fracture of Buccal Cortical Plate: What To Expect?

  After placing a 5×13mm dental implant in the maxillary canine area, I detected a hairline fracture in the buccal cortical plate.

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• Difficulty Seating Overdenture with Locator

  For the first 6 months the Locators worked fine. Because the abutments were not exactly parallel, I used the Green Locator attachments for retention. After 6 months when I attempted to use the Blue Locator male attachments to increase retention…

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• Exposure of Graft: How to Manage?

  I have performed a bone block graft from the ramus on the anterior maxilla for future dental implant placement. During healing I had a small fenestration of the flap and exposure of the graft.

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• Short Wait for Osseointegration?

  As fixture design and surface coating have evolved, osseointegration periods have shortened considerably.

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• Implants Following Radiation Treatment?

  I am going to place dental implants in the mandible. The patient had radiation treatment for cancer therapy 20 years ago. Is it safe now for me to place the dental implants?

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• Gingiva Blanches Around Implant-Abutment Junction: Will This Resolve?

  When I torque down the abutment into the dental implant, sometimes the gingiva blanches around the junction of the implant platform and the abutment margin on the buccal.

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• Endodontically-Treated Tooth Next to Implant Site: Correct Protocol?

  Whenever there is an endodontically-treated tooth next to the dental implant site, I refer the patient to an endodontist to evaluate the endo tooth and to determine if retreatment or periapical surgery is required prior to placing the dental implant.

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