Failing Fixed Partial Denture: Wait or Take Action?
All of the implants for the fixed partial denture have experienced significant bone loss.
3mm of Crestal Bone Loss: What Should I Do?
About eighteen months later, the patient presented with an acute periodontal abscess on the buccal aspect of the dental implant.
Large Labial Concavity: Best Treatment Option for Implant Placement?
His CBCT image below shows a large labial concavity, especially above his lateral incisors. If dental implants are put in the ideal position and angulation, the apical half of the implants will be exposed and grafting of the sites will be inevitable.
Mandibular Rehabilitation: Treatment Options?
I have a 65 year old female who presents with extensive mandibular fixed partial dentures which are failing.
GIP Implant Case in Patient with Sinus Complication
This is a case of a 38-year old patient with a gap of 11mm in the upper jaw, due to loss of teeth 15 and 16 and a osseous height of 9mm to sinus. The patient on several occasions suffered from sinusitis.
Implant Placed in Inferior Alveolar Canal: Timeline for Patient Recovery?
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.
Cover Screw Exposed on Anthogyr AXIOM Implants: Recommendations?
I did a sinus lift and installed 3 Anthogyr AXIOM implants in the maxillary right posterior 4 months prior.
Implants Installed in 1995: Anybody Recognize These?
I have a new patient who presented with implant supported, screw retained fixed partial dentures in the maxilla and mandible.
Extraction Defects: What remedial treatment would you recommend?
What remedial treatment would you recommend for this implant patient? Any suggestion as to what went wrong?
Extraction Defects: Should They Be Repaired Before Placing Implants?
Should the extraction defects be repaired before placing implants? Should the implants have been placed at the time of extraction?
Bio-Gide Membrane Exposed: Comments on Long Term Management?
At 1 week post-operative, the patient returned and presented with loose or missing sutures around #9 and 11 with membrane and graft exposed.
Pregnant Patient Wants Implant: Should I Proceed?
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?
Anklyos Implants: Can I Use them For This Patient that Needs Bilateral Sinus Lifts?
I will need to do bilateral sinus lifts for this patient. I’d normally place the implants simultaneously, but I’m now using the Anklyos implant system.
Knife Edged Ridge Case: Recommendations?
My concern is that the alveolar ridge is quite narrow buccolingually and I will have to do some major surgical intervention to accommodate the implant fixtures.
Unexpected Anatomic Structure Revealed After CBCT for Implants: Advice?
During treatment planning for implants, a CBVT scan revealed what appears to be an anatomic structure about 1mm diameter in the area.
Diminished Bone Volume and Patient Wants Implant Case: Recommendations?
The area has healed uneventfully but there is decreased bone height and the ridge diameter of about 5mm.
Maxillary Anterior Site Development Case: Your Suggestions?
A 50 year old male patient, non- diabetic, non-smoker, without parafunctional habits, presented with a mobile 7 (maxillary right lateral incisor; 12).
Comprehensive Treatment Plan for Patient with Significant Periodontal Disease?
I have a patient who presents with missing teeth and many of the remaining teeth have significant periodontal disease.
Adequate Bone Volume and Bone Height for Mandibular Overdenture?
Do you think I have adequate bone volume and bone height for a mandibular overdenture retained by 4-implants?
Implant Healing Caps Exposed: Recommendations?
Two weeks after the surgery the implant healing caps became exposed and I advised the patient to use chlorhexidine gel over the implants.
Patient with Persistant Infection: Recommendation for Implant Placement?
Approximately 1 month later patient returned with another infection. Patient wants implants to replace #18,19.
Installing Implant into Graft: Will I Get Stability Even If Don’t Engage any Original Bone?
It looks like my entire implant will be in graft. Normally I have chosen to place implants into areas that can gain all the initial stability from the original bone and not rely on the grafted portion.
Tore Sinus Membrane and Grafted with Regeneform: Thoughts on this Case?
The problem I encountered during the surgery is that I inadvertently tore away the sinus membrane in the area where I needed to graft. The membrane had been completely removed. I grafted the area with Regenaform.
