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Discussions on Dental Implant News

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Recent Dental Implant News Discussions

• Dental Implants for Organ Transplant Patients?

  I need to research placing dental implants in organ transplant patients but I can’t seem to find very much information on the topic. Where can I find studies, if there are any?

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• Inferior Alveolar Nerve Quite Unusual: Any Ideas?

  The inferior alveolar nerve space is quite unusual in that it is over 10mm in height and over 4mm in width.

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• Placing Implant in Cystic Area?

  Recently we extracted a lower left second premolar [#20] which had a huge periapical odontogenic cyst.

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• Placing a V-Ring Against the Implant Crown: Pose Any Danger?

  I am just wondering if placing a V-ring against the implant crown will pose any danger to the implant because of the pressure the springing action will exert on the implant.

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• Atlas Narrow Body Implant System: Distinctly Different?

  With several high profile narrow diameter implant systems on the market, we’re wondering if the Atlas system is truly distinct?

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• Mandibular Overdenture Design: Two, Three or Mini Implants?

  Most of the implant retained mandibular overdentures that I have seen have two implants, but some lecturers recommend three and some say to place minis.

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• Impressions for Multiple Implants: Best to Splint all Transfer Copings Together with Resin?

  When making an impression of multiple implant fixtures in one arch, is the best procedure to splint all the transfer impression copings together with resin?

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• Restoring Bone Level Straumann Implant: Fixture Not in the Ideal Parallel Position?

  I am about to restore a bone level Straumann implant in the 15 site. I noticed that the implant fixture is not in the ideal parallel position.

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• Use of Chlorhexidine to Prevent Infection: Negative or Positive?

  I would like to know from other dentists placing implants of their experience with the use of chlorhexidine, and whether it is negative or positive when used during surgery?

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• CTX Test: Guidelines for Use in Treatment Planning for Implants?

  Where can I find more information about the CTX Test and guidelines for use in diagnosing and treatment planning patients for implants?

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• Treating a Fractured Implant Fixture?

  Does anyone have experience with treating an implant fixture that fractured under occlusal loading?

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• Should I Remove Titanium Screws to Hold Block Graft in Place?

  I’m not sure if I will be able to achieve primary stability. If not, do I have to go back in and to remove the titanium screws that I used to hold the block graft in place?

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• Dental Implant Spinning in Socket: How to Manage?

  ut when I went in to torque down the abutment, the implant began to spin in the socket. What do I do now?

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• Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?

  I tightened the implant beyond 45 Ncm. It’s the fourth post-operative day and the patient still has pain which is relieved with analgesics.

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• Using Osteotomes to Place Implants: Avoid Membrane Perforation?

  I am planning on using osteotomes to fracture the floor of the sinus and elevate it 4mm in order to gain adequate bone height to place 4.1×8mm tapered implants.

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• Reusing Implants: Is it Possible?

  If an implant fails and exfoliates by itself or is extracted, can that implant be sterilized and reused?

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• Too Much Insertion Pressure When Placing Implants Leading to Pain?

  I placed a parallel wall cylinder implant 4×11.5 at #29 site, mandibular right second premolar, on a 37 year-old healthy woman.

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• Osteocel: Eliminate Need for an AutoGraft Due to Unique Properties?

  I have seen advertisements for Osteocel, which describe this as a bone matrix product containing stem cells

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• Packed in More Graft than Needed: What Should I Do?

  When I viewed the immediate post-op panoramic radiograph, I noticed that I had packed in a bit more graft than I really needed and this appears to have obliterated part of the maxillary sinus cavity.

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• Abutment for HA MicroVent Implant?

  I have a patient with an HA MicroVent 10 X 3.7 implant in the #4 region which was placed in 1989.

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• Chances of Injuring the Nasopalatine Foramen During Implant Placement?

  On the periapical radiograph the root apex appears very close to the nasopalatine foramen. What are my chances of injuring the nerve?

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• Xenogenous Block Graft Cracked: What Should I Do?

  I re-entered the site and placed two implants. The block graft cracked. I filled the fractured areas with Bio-Oss and covered it with a membrane.

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• Using Cantilevered Pontics in the Posterior Maxilla?

  I talked with my oral surgeon who is very conservative and careful. His recommendation is not to use cantilevered pontics in the posterior maxilla because 80% of the occlusal force on those pontics will be transmitted to the adjacent implant.

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• Using Implant as an Abutment for a Removable Partial Denture?

  Is there any way that I can use an implant as an abutment for a removable partial denture? Is there some protocol for using a particular attachment system like ERA or Locator to use the implant for retention of the removable partial denture?

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• Bone Graft Exposed: How to Deal with this Condition?

  I have an implant case which involved ridge splitting, implant placement, guided bone regeneration using Bio-Oss (Osteohealth) and Epiguide membrane (Riemser) in the left posterior mandible area (35-37).

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