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Options for Provisional Restoration?
What other options are there to temporarily replace the missing tooth while the implant integrates?
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Porcelain Fractures: How To Approach?
Now that I have been restoring dental implants for about 7 years, I am beginning to see some trends in complications, I have seen too many fractured porcelain crowns and bridges.
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Implant Crown Materials: Any Difference in Force Transmitted to Implant Fixture?
We have many materials available to either form crowns or to cover a metal understructure, but is there any difference in terms of force transmitted to the implant fixture?
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Premier Implant Cement: Source of Chronic Inflammation?
Have any of you experienced exudate, chronic inflammation, or bone loss with dental implants where the crowns were cemented with Premier Implant Cement?
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Implant Above Tissue: Prep the Margin on Implant Itself?
Due to the shallow placement of #10 I have found that the margin of the Astra Implant is above the tissue, which is unacceptable from an aesthetic perspective.
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Loose Crown or Abutment Screw: Treatment Plan?
One of my dental implant patients returned with a loose cemented crown. I cannot be sure if the crown is loose or if the abutment is loose. Is there any reliable way to determine this?
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Index Impression: What Am I Doing Wrong?
When I pick up dental implant impression copings for a bridge, I use a custom acrylic tray with a small window where the impression coping screws poke through.
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Loose Abutment Screw
Recently, I completed a case where I forgot to torque down the abutment screw completely. Now it is loose! How do I retrieve this screw and tighten it?
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Aesthetic Gingival Architecture Techniques
He demonstrated how the best time to form highly aesthetic gingival architecture in the maxillary anterior aesthetic zone is at the time of implant placement.
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Unscrew the Transfer Coping Screw?
After making my impression index, I attempted to unscrew the transfer coping screw. The angles of the internal hex rounded off and I could not engage the internal hex with the torque wrench.
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Splinted or Free-Standing Restoration?
When restoring multiple dental implants, what is the better treatment option: splinted crowns or free-standing individual crowns?
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Abutment Holders: Worth the Extra Expense?
The last few cases my lab has returned to me have abutments with pointy tops. They say they leave the pointy tops because it increases the occluso-gingival height of the abutment which increases retention.
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Temporary Crowns and Bridges on Dental Implants?
Charles, a dentist, asks:
I have a devil of a time making temporary crowns and bridges on
dental implants. Does anybody have any good techniques that they would care to
share with the rest of us?I have had problems locking on the temporary bridge to the dental implant platform where I had to cut off the temporary bridge […]
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Screw vs. Cement Retained?
I am presently evaluating the design for both upper and lower bar-retained overdentures. The upper will have eight dental implants and the lower will have six dental implants.
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Gold Crowns vs. PFM
I have the impression that, in absence of aesthetic considerations, gold crowns are superior to PFMs on natural teeth and on dental implants. Is this accurate?
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