Dental Implant Systems

I saw an advertisement for using hybrid implants (2.9mm) for crown and bridge applications. These are wider than mini implants and narrower than conventional implants.

Does anyone have experience using zygoma implants to retain a removable partial denture?

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

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

Is there anyone using the Arrow Implant manufactured by the Brain Base Corp. in Japan? I am interested in the RBM surface that this implant system utilizes.

I want to increase the number of immediate restorations on the implants I place and my understanding is that NobelActive is the best implant fixture for that purpose.

The literature seems to supports the view that the junction of the abutment and implant fixture is a potential source of infection and inflammation.

I recently attended a lecture where the teacher showed some examples of complications that arose from excess cement being extruded from the crown margin and deep into the gingival tissue.

Has anyone used the Intra-Lock mini implant system to replace maxillary lateral incisors in a space too small for conventional implants?

Dentatus has just come out with Anew, their long-term dental implants with screw retention for provisional implant supported fixed partial dentures.

I am a general dentist and have experience placing Nobel Biocare, Biomet 3i and Straumann ITI dental implants. I am now thinking about switching to Ankylos.

Can anyone comment knowledgeably about using zirconium oxide to create individualized models of extracted roots, a process called differentiated osseointegration?

What is the function of various coatings on dental implants?

Does anybody have any experience with the Implant Direct line of dental implants?

What Are the Advantages of the Basal Osseointegrated Implant?

A couple of small European implant companies have started marketing Titanium dental implant fixtures with Surgical Steel abutments, will this combination lead to failure?

I remember in dental school learning about endodontic stabilizers. These were long, tapered posts that inserted through the root canal system and extended into the surrounding bone.

Sybron has recently launched the Pitt Easy Dental Implant with a Puretex surface. This is supposed to represent the next step in the evolution of implant surface treatment…

At the European Association for Osseointegration (EAO) Straumann presented a new material, Roxolid, that the company says make dental implants smaller and stronger.

I am contemplating buying Dentsply’s XiVE implant systems. They have a conventional implant, but they also offer a Transgingival (TG) one piece implant system.

The Max Tapered Implant is 8-9mm wide and can be inserted into a molar extraction site and provide sufficient primary stability for immediate loading.

I have a recently experienced two posterior Astra implant fractures. I was told by a colleague that Astra implants are made up of commercially pure titanium, while most other implant systems use an alloy.

Any experience with Pitt-Easy Implants, which I placed, and a recent radiograph reveals bone loss along one side of the implant.

Does altering the thread pitch or thread depth have any effect on osseointegration?

Straumann has complemented its highly successful dental implant system with a new generation of bone level implant, the Straumann Bone Level Implant.