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Discussions on Immediate Loading

Welcome to the Immediate Loading Section of OsseoNews.com, where you can research, and participate in discussions about Immediate Loading. It's the one place where dentists, surgeons, and industry experts share their knowledge on Immediate Loading.

Recent Immediate Loading Discussions

• Timeline for Implant Placement: Do I Need to Wait for Complete Healing of the Site?

  Can I place the implant now or do I have to wait 2-4 months for complete healing of the site?

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• Tooth Treated with a Root Canal: Candidate for Immediate Implant Placement or Not?

  Tooth #8 was treated with a root canal, post and crown and has fractured vertically. The tooth needs to be extracted and replaced with an implant. I’d like to do immediate placement.

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• New to Implants: Where in the Socket Should I Place the Implant?

  I have treatment planned a mandibular first molar for extraction and immediate replacement with a wide platform implant. After extracting the tooth, exactly where in the socket should I place the implant?

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• Immediate Loading of Dental Implants: Reviews of Book?

  Has anybody here bought the book Immediate Loading of Dental Implants?

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• Buccal Bone Loss on Immediate Implant: Recommendations?

  I extracted the maxillary right canine and central incisor and placed 2 immediate dental implants. The lateral incisor was already missing…I decided to do stage-2 today uncover on the spot and I laid a flap to discover that the implant in the canine position is completely dehisced on the buccal…

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• Immediate Placement for Patient with Periodontal Disease: What is the Best Implant System To Use for This?

  I have a patient with severe periodontal disease. I will extract maxillary first premolar to first premolar and place implants at that time. What is the best implant system to use?

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• Immediate Loading: When Is This Approach Indicated?

  Is immediate loading a possibility in a case like mine or would a more conservative approach be preferable?

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• Lower Molar: Surgical Extraction and Implant Placement at Same Time?

  There is plenty of bone distally to place an implant, Can the surgical extraction be done at the same time as preparing the implant site and placing the implant?

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• Proximators: Useful for Atraumatically Extracting Teeth?

  I’m wondering about Proximators, these look like undersized elevators with small tips and are supposed to be useful for atraumatically extracting teeth.

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• One or Two-Stage Implant Placement?

  Should I bury the implants and do a two-stage procedure or should I place transmucosal healing caps for a single stage procedure?

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• Short Wait for Osseointegration?

  As fixture design and surface coating have evolved, osseointegration periods have shortened considerably.

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• Peri-Implantitis : Any Solutions?

  This is the first case I have done where I placed the dental implant on the day I extracted the tooth. This was in #14 area (Maxillary Left First Molar).

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• Immediate Loading Imperiled?

  Does the recent negative study of Nobel Biocare’s Teeth-In-Hour dental implant protocol merely reflect on Nobel or does this study call into question the reliability of Immediate Loading methods in general?

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• Immediate Loading: Determining Primary Stability?

  I did my first extraction and immediate dental implant placement case on tooth #15. It was a broken down, non-restorable tooth with no apparent periapical infection present.

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• Perspectives on Implant Dentistry

  In this exclusive interview, Michael Sonick, DDS, Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, shares his views on Implant Education, Immediate Extraction, Implant Complications, and much more. This is Part I of a two-part interview.

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• Immediate vs. Delayed Loading?

  The bottom line here is that after 2-years in the posterior mandible, there was basically no difference between the dental implants which had a 3-month osseointegration followed by restoration versus immediate loading of the dental implants!

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• Immediate Placement of One-Piece Dental Implant-Abutment

  I am considering an immediate placement of a one-piece dental implant-abutment at the time of extraction to replace an anterior tooth.

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• Protocol for Determining Osseointegration

  So, I am wondering what the current thinking is on this subject ? What determinants of osseointegration “success” do you use and why? Thanks.

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• Immediate Insertion for Teeth with Periapical Infections?

  Joel, a dentist from Rochester, asks:I am doing an immediate insertion maxillary complete denture after extracting several non-restorable teeth with periapical infections.

  After the infections have resolved and the areas have healed, I am
  going to place 4 dental implants in #4, 6, 11, 13 areas to support a maxillary
  overdenture. My protocol is to extract the […]

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• Immediate Loading in the Anterior Aesthetic Zone?

  I have discussed a number of dental implant cases where I want to do a one-piece, single stage, immediate provisionalization at the time of tooth extaction in the anterior aesthetic zone.

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• Immediate Loading: The Gold Standard?

  It seems like immediate loading is becoming the gold standard in dental implant placement and restoration.

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• Is Immediate Functional Loading Too Risky?

  The adoption of immediate functional loading (IFL) has been sluggish because of practitioners’ fears of implant complications and failure.

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• Total Graft Failure and Teeth in Day

  However, recent CAT Scan shows total failure of the graft in the rear and success in the front. The doctor wants to place dental implants in the front and use a fixed denture.

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• One-Piece Dental Implant - Abutment Units

  One of the aspects of the one-piece dental implant - abutment units is that the dental implants have to be loaded immediately after placement.

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• Dental Implants and Buyers Remorse

  No matter how carefully we discuss the dental implant procedure with a patient, sometimes a patient has “buyers remorse” after the surgery.

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