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Discussions on Restoration of Dental Implants

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Recent Restoration of Dental Implants Discussions

• Temporary Crown for Implant: How do I Contour this to Prevent Gingival Recession?

  How do I contour the buccal of the temporary crown to prevent gingival recession?

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• Strongest Alloy and Porcelain Combinations for Implants?

  I want to minimize the amount of chipping of porcelain on my implant crown and bridge cases. What are the strongest alloy and porcelain combinations?

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• Restoration of an Edentulous Mandibular Arch: 2 or 3 Implants?

  My oral surgeon is recommending 2 implants for the posterior sextants and 2 implants for the anterior sextant. What do you think?

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• Impression for Implant Overdenture: Ways to Save Money?

  I have a patient who is treatment planned for a maxillary overdenture supported by 4-implants in the second premolar and canine areas

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• Proper Implant Bridge Design to Replace #2 to #5?

  If I place a wide platform implant in #2 site and a regular platform in #5 site, will that be enough support for a 4-unit bridge extending from #2 to #5?

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• Provisional Hybrid when Converting Mandibular Overdenture to Fixed Partial?

  My surgeon suggested that after he places the other implant fixtures I convert the overdenture into a provisional hybrid partial denture so the patient can get used to wearing a fixed appliance.

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• Die Spacer on Implant Abutments: How Much is Enough?

  What are dental labs doing about die relief on implant abutments?

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• Implant Retained Overdenture: Determine How Long the Locator Abutment Should Be?

  At that visit I am planning on uncovering the implant fixtures and placing transmucosal healing abutments. How do I determine how long the Locator abutment should be?

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• Nobel Direct Loss of Buccal Gingiva: Prepare the Implant in the Mouth or Make PFM Instead?

  I placed a Noble Direct 3.0 implant in the mandibular right first premolar area. Now there is loss of buccal gingiva right up to vestibule.

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• Implant Bridge: Combining Cement and Screw Retained Prosthesis?

  I have to insert an implant bridge that has both screw and cement retention.

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• Restoring Single Unit Crowns on Implants: What Material Should I Use?

  I have to restore a full maxillary arch of single unit crowns on implants and natural teeth – 14 single units. I want to use the same material for all the crowns. What should I use?

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• Break Open Torque Wrenches Seem to Be Sticking?

  Recently I noticed that some of the torque wrenches seem to be sticking and are possibly not opening up when they reach the desired torque level.

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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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