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Discussions on Surgical Placement of Dental Implants

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

Recent Surgical Placement of Dental Implants Discussions

• Implant Threads Exposed: What Should I Do?

  The problem I have is that 3 of the threads are exposed on the lingual side of the implant fixture.

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• Implant Site Preparation: Treatment of Asymptomatic Foreign Bodies on the Sinus?

  There is no current consensus on the treatment of asymptomatic foreign bodies on the sinus. Does the patient really need to have it removed? Is it medically necessary?

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• Tissue Necrosis Around Implant: What To Do?

  I had recently placed an implant in the lower mandible region in order to replace the missing lower left central incisor. Two weeks later, the gingiva started to appear necrotic.

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• Antibiotics Following Implant Placement or Socket Grafting?

  With regard to implants, I cannot find any controlled studies that suggest whether or not healthy patients should or should not receive antibiotics following socket grafting or implant placement.

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• Splitting the Ridge Instead of Block Graft: Details on Procedure?

  I have read about splitting the ridge to increase bone volume at the recipient site instead of doing a block graft on the buccal of the cortical bone.

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• Adequate Anesthesia for Implant Placement?

  I was taught that only buccal and lingual infiltrations are the proper way to anesthetize for placing implants in the molar sites.

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• Zygoma Implants to Retain Removable Partial Denture?

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

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• Inserting Implants: Use Particular Speed or Torque Value?

  I am not clear about what I am supposed to use as a guide when I insert the implants into a healed edentulous site. Am I supposed to use a particular speed – like 30 rpm – or am I supposed to use a torque value like 45 Ncm?

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• Deficient Buccolingual Bone: Recommendations?

  I have a healthy young adult male who is missing #7 and I’m planning a single free-standing dental implant fixture. The buccolingual dimension of the alveolar ridge in that area appears to have a buccal concavity.

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• What is the Cost of Implant Failure?

  I am also concerned, though, about the cost of implant failure.

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• How Do You Know that the Graft Site is Ready to Receive a Dental Implant?

  how do you know that the graft site is ready to receive an implant?

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• Particulate Graft: Place Implant and then Pack?

  Can I place the implant and then pack the Puros around it?

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• Implant Patient with Parkinsons Disease: What is the Best Attachment to Use?

  I have got a new patient 78 year old male with Parkinsons Disease and I have treatment planned him for 2 lower implants in a edentulous mandible and a mandibular overdenture.

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• 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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• 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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• Treating a Fractured Implant Fixture?

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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