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Short Dental Implants: A Literature Review and Rationale for Use

When treatment planning for dental implants, the height of available bone is often used...

Altering and Controlling Osseous Architecture to Achieve an Aesthetic Dentition

We as dental clinicians are accustomed to altering bone to eliminate periodontal osseous defects...

Treatment Planning for Dental Implants: A Rationale for Decision Making, Part 2: Partial Edentulism

A previous review1 considered the factors involved in the decision of whether to extract...

Minimally Invasive Dentistry: A Family Benefits

Imagine, if you will, that a woman calls the dental office for appointments for...

Replacing Congenitally Missing Maxillary Lateral Incisors: Assessing Treatment Options and Case Report

Congenital absence of one or more teeth (hypodontia) is the most common developmental dental...

Treatment Planning for Dental Implants: A Rationale for Decision Making Part 1: Total Edentulism

With the introduction of endosseous implants by Brnemark in 1969,1 dental patients have the...

Prion Diseases and Infection Control Precautions

Prions, only truly understood by the scientific and medical community in the past 2...

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...

An Extreme MakeoverAesthetic Demands and Patient Satisfaction

Dentistry has entered a very exciting time in the aesthetic arena. The wave of...

Perforations, Blocks, Ledges, and TransportationsOvercoming Barriers to Endodontic Finishing

What does it mean to do great endodontics? The critical distinction of great endodontics...