Most Popular Implant Q&A Posts

I recently installed an implant into the inferior alveolar canal. Upon realizing what I had done, I backed out the implant and replaced it with a shorter, wider implant.

The patient is currently pregnant and I would have to place the implant and the crowns while she is still pregnant. Should I proceed with the work?

One of the most difficult challenges is the management of the atrophic or deficient maxillary anterior ridge.

I have encountered a number of cases where this could produce a better prosthetic result if I can be confident that splinting natural teeth to implants can be successful.

I recently did my first narrow diameter implant case using 4 Atlas narrow body implants. The Atlas implant in #26 area was exuding purulence

The area has healed uneventfully but there is decreased bone height and the ridge diameter of about 5mm.

I have treatment planned some sinus lift procedures using a lateral window approach. If I tear a hole in the membrane, what is the best way to treat this?

When you get to the stage where you have already placed your osteotomy channel and you are down the implant fixture and you take a radiograph and see that the fixture is malpositioned or misangled, what should you do?

Is there any difference in the ability to establish primary stability between parallel walled cylinder dental implants vs tapered implants?

Are people using B-TCP as a sole grafting material? Can you expect predictable results using B-TCP for 4 and 3 walled defects?

While drilling the osteotomy in the premolar-canine area, I inadvertently perforated the lingual cortical plate.

I have an edentulous patient with very little bone in the mandible who complains that her mandibular complete denture is loose and shifts around when she eats.

My question revolves around the consideration of using electrosurgery to pulse generate heat to the implant/bone interface. Any experience with this technique?

Is it in accordance with the standard of care for general dentists to do bone grafting at the time of implant placement or for site development and socket preservation?

Do you think that I should advise the patient at this time that #11 may need root canal treatment?

I have a patient who presents for a maxillary full arch edentulation with immediate placement of 7 implants. Thoughts on this case?

What are the implants with the surface coatings that most effectively achieve early osseointegration?

I would like to collect different approaches to extraction site and site preservation.

I placed implants in a 48 year old female patient. She is currently experiencing paresthesia of her lower right lip.

My office has been using the Ankylos Implant system fore the past three years. Recently we have experienced 5 abutment fractures in lower 1st molars.

When using PRP – Platelet Rich Plasma – for surgeries, are you using bovine thrombin to coagulate the platelets?

Which is a better solution for the upper arch: A sinus lift or bilateral zygoma implants?

Have other Drs seen acute/chronic post nasal drip or watery discharge occurring after sinus lift augmentation?

Implant patient now presents with a dehiscence in the crestal region where the cover screw can be seen.

I now have a vertical defect on only the distal, but I am concerned since it is only 5 weeks out.