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• dr david on CT Scans for Dental Implant Treatment
  As far as the cost of the hardware, you really don’t need to buy a machine. Just send you Pt. to the image center just like 99% of the orthodontics ...
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• dr david on CT Scans for Dental Implant Treatment
  Ct scan before dental implant should be the standard of care. To say that implants can not be done without a CT would not be accurate. They could and...
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• cory c. on Bone Grafting at Time of Extraction: Can This Get Costly?
  by the wording of your question it sounds more like you're concerned about recouping cost of the grafting and time for the procedure than best way to ...
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• Richard Hughes, DDS, FAAID, FAAIP, DABOI on Dental Implants and Bruxism
  Dear Jim, I would tell this lady nicely that tires, shoes, tooth brushes and root canal treatment does not last forever. I would also refer her to E...
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• dr Michal Fidecki on Platform Switching: Evidence for this Protocol?
  "A data confirm the important role of the microgap between the implant and abutment in the remodeling of the peri-implant crestal bone. Platform swi...
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• Dr.Islam on Dental Implant Fixture Surface Treatment: How Durable Is It?
  thanks Roland is there a chance the implant could integrate? its better to replace it?...
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• Kenneth on Oral Bisphosphonates, Osteonecrosis, and Dental Implants
  IN response to Robert, MD: This is the exact problem this thread is trying to lay out for the medical community. While we can not predict when someo...
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• jim hales, dds on Dental Implants and Bruxism
  40 yr old lady, heavy bruxism, missing #19 due to vertical root fracture/endo/posts extraction and loss of #18 {unknown cause}wants #19 implant. I ad...
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• Robert56 on Platform Switching: Evidence for this Protocol?
  IAn Glass beads actually destroy gold even worse and can send micro fractures into Zirconia. I have seen SEM's of this presented in articles Sorry...
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• Richard Hughes, DDS, FAAID, FAAIP, DABOI on Platform Switching: Evidence for this Protocol?
  Bill, you are most correct....
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• Ian Miller on Platform Switching: Evidence for this Protocol?
  Robert56, perhaps get your laboratory to sandblast with glass beads rather than the sand? Also the use of gold components (gold collar- plastic waxing...
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• Lindhe on Benefits of PRP and PRGF: Does the Clinical Experience Support the Literature?
  Dr. Ziv Mazor, and what do you think would have happened if you had not placed the PRF ? Are you saying that if you had not placed PRF, there would no...
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• Roland Balan on Narrow Diameter Implants: Are There Absolute Contraindications?
  No contraindications ! Lack of bone quality can be matched with a increased number of implants. In contrary: Multistep procedures are an act of art...
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• Jim Guthrie on Bone Grafting at Time of Extraction: Can This Get Costly?
  I normally try to place a product to try and minimize epithelial infiltration into the socket and allow for bone matrix and bone formation to start. I...
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• Robert56 on Mesiodistal Space a Mere 3.5mm: Will My Plan Work?
  PLs read the actual indications in the mini's package. You are treading heavy to do this procedue unless you read them first and inform the patient t...
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• Don Callan on Bone Grafting at Time of Extraction: Can This Get Costly?
  If possible, I found it is best to graft at the time of the extraction....
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• Roland Balan on Dental Implant Fixture Surface Treatment: How Durable Is It?
  Once you insert it it reacts with the tissue involved. It will not react a second time if you reinsert it. In the time inbetween the first and secon...
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• Roland Balan on Allergic to Titanium: What are My Options for Implants?
  Zimmer dental, former Sulzer-Calcitek, stil have HA-(hydroxylapatit) coated implants. By using casted abutments the problem might can be evitated. The...
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• Ziv Mazor on Benefits of PRP and PRGF: Does the Clinical Experience Support the Literature?
  I totally agree with both Howard and Linkow. Using PRF doesn't involve additional expenses or machinary except for the simple centrifuge. There is ple...
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• E MacKay on Sinus Lift in Two Stages?
  In residency I saw only one situation that did call for the use of Summer's technique twice. The CT showed a complicated system of septa and only 1-2m...
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• William L. Ingram V, DMD, MAGD on Platform Switching: Evidence for this Protocol?
  Bicon has been platform switching by their inherent design since 1986, I believe. Bill Ingram....
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• Eric Huang on Junction of Abutment and Implant Fixture: Potential Source of Infection?
  Hi Everyone here Bicon implant is the only system doesnot have bacterial pool arround neck of implant. Lockin-taper design prevent bacteria grow. I...
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• Dr Harold Bergman DDS, DiplOS&A, MScD(Path), MRCD(C) on Platform Switching: Evidence for this Protocol?
  It would be beneficial if the periodontist in question could supply us with the recent studies that he is referring to that call this into question . ...
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• Robert56 on Platform Switching: Evidence for this Protocol?
  Platform shifted implants such as Straumann's , Nobel Active, Astra, 3i, Ankylos, etc and the studies attached to them show bone loss up to 1.2 mm aft...
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• Dr.Islam on Dental Implant Fixture Surface Treatment: How Durable Is It?
  I want to know if the surface treatment of implant is lost if you remove the implant and re insert it immediately (may be to increase the lenght/diame...
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