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Graft Has Resorbed: How To Handle?
I placed this implant 3.5 months ago and used a Puros graft and covered this with a BioMed membrane, but now it looks as though the graft has resorbed.
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Bone Volume for a Narrow Platform Implant?
There is about 11mm of bone from the alveolar crest to the base of the nose, Is this enough occlusogingival bone volume for a narrow platform implant?
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Space Around Coronal Half: Graft or Not?
I torqued the implant down to 35Ncm. I had a space around the coronal half of the implant of 1-4mm.
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Titanium Mesh: Techniques and Pitfalls?
Have you used titanium mesh and what is your opinion?
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Block Graft: Radiographic Bone Loss Common?
I did a block graft 2 months ago and it appears that there is some radiographic bone loss around the screw, and I’m wondering if this is common.
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Decrease in Radiodensity at Graft Site: Doomed to Failure?
I recently did a lateral sinus lift and bone graft. The post-op orthopantomograph of the patient after 3 weeks does not show much of the radio-opacity as seen post-op 2 days radiograph in the sinus lift area/grafted area.
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Dense-PTFE Membrane vs. Expanded-PTFE Membrane ?
I am a dental student and I am trying to figure out the difference between a dense-PTFE membrane and a expanded-PTFE membrane. What exactly is the difference?
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Massive Bone Resorption: What Should I Do Now?
My treatment plan was to extract #12, 13 and 14 atraumatically, place bone graft material and allow the graft sites to heal for 5 months and then place implants.
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Gap Between Graft and Ridge: What Should I Do?
A CT scan was taken yesterday and a gap was seen between the graft and the ridge, approximately 0.5mm wide.
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Reinforcing Allograft Material with a Titanium Mesh?
My impression is that a lot of the bone loss and graft failure is secondary to micromovement and particulate migration and that this could be circumvented with a rigid “cage” covering the graft.
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Managing Implant Complications, Flapless Surgery and much more…
Recognized leader in reconstructive and esthetic dental implant surgery, Dr. Anthony Sclar, shares his thoughts on managing complications, the role of Cone Beam CT, flapless surgery, bone grafts and much more…our most extensive interview yet!
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Purulent Discharge on the Mesial and Distal: What is Going On?
After 4 months the bone graft had a radiographic appearance comparable to the surrounding bone so I placed a wide platform dental implant.
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Grafting an Upper Molar Socket?
A question came up at our dental implants study club recently and I thought I would post it to get others opinions. The question was: when is it best and when it not best to graft an upper molar socket that you know will require an antral wall sinus lift augmentation later in order to place a dental implant?
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Securing Mandibular Molar Graft Sites: Best Technique?
Any advice on the best way to secure socket grafts in mandibular molar sites during socket preservation? I plan on placing a Collaplug to cover the socket graft along with a removable flipper covering the graft site.
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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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