Implants

Dental Implants as Treatment of Choice: Beneficial, Predictable, and Straightforward

Dentistry has been significantly enhanced by the availability of implant-supported tooth replacement. The surgical...

Simplifying Single-Stage Solid Abutments: Techniques for Impressioning and Temporization

Single-stage implants are being utilized more frequently. Currently, Straumann ITI, Lifecore Biomedical, Sulzer Paragon,...

Treatment Options for a Congenitally Missing Lateral Incisor

Figure 1. The patient has abundant keratinized tissue and bone, but has limited interdental...

Indications and Techniques for Surgical Indexing at Stage I Implant Surgery

In reference to prosthetic reconstruction, implants may be placed in poor alignment for a...

Maximizing Available Options to Embrace “Less Is Best”

A healthy 21-year-old presents to your office with a history of trauma to the...

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning for Implant Placement

Eight years ago, Dr. Gordon Christensen told me, If you can do molar endodontics...

Interactive Computerized Tomography for Dental Implants: Treatment Planning From the Prosthetic End Result

With the prosthetic end result driving many parameters of dental implant treatment, it is...

Implant Surgery and High-Frequency Currents

The physical consequences of passing an electrical current by means of a metal insert...

Simplified Fixed Implant Prosthetics

This article discusses a “simplified fixed implant prosthetics” (SFIP) protocol that offers the entire...

Immediate Occlusal Loading for Fixed Prostheses in Implant Dentistry

The concept of immediate occlusal loading of root form implants for fixed restorations has...