ADVANCED DENTAL IMPLANT PLACEMENT TECHNIQUES

Advanced dental implant placement techniques

The availability of in office Cone Beam CT (CBCT) scanners, dental implant planning software, CAD CAM milling, and rapid printing technologies allow for the precise placement of dental implants and immediate prosthetic temporization. These technologies allow for flapless implant placement, or open flap bone reduction for "All on 4" techniques with improved preoperative planning and intraoperati...

Dental Implant Placement in Inadequate Posterior Maxilla

Dental implant placement by predoctoral dental students: a pilot program.

Dental implant education is increasingly becoming part of predoctoral dental curricula. New York University College of Dentistry has developed a pilot dental implant program that trains students in implant restorations for single-tooth restorations and mandibular overdentures. Fourth-year students have the option of applying for an implant honors program, which can include surgically placing po...

Techniques for dental implant nanosurface modifications

PURPOSE Dental implant has gained clinical success over last decade with the major drawback related to osseointegration as properties of metal (Titanium) are different from human bone. Currently implant procedures include endosseous type of dental implants with nanoscale surface characteristics. The objective of this review article is to summarize the role of nanotopography on titanium dental i...

Local Dexamethasone Infiltration after Dental Implant Placement — a Comparative Study

Objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the co-administered dexamethasone and diclofinac potassium in controlling pain and swelling after dental implant surgery. The study was done in the PN Dental Centre(PNDC), PNS Shifa hospital Karachi from Aug 2009 to Dec 2010. It was a cross sectional comparative study. One hundred patients were selected in this study and divided into two e...