Advances in Esthetic Implant Dentistry

Advances in Implant Dentistry

This communication is intended to provide general practitioners, educators, and dental students with an overview of recent advances in implant dentistry. It covers a review of the history of implant in dentistry, approaches used for ridge preservation, ridge augmentation, guided bone regeneration, methods used for treatment peri-implantitis, and advances in implant dentistry for edentulous pati...

Advances in Implant Dentistry—A Special Issue of Dentistry Journal

New knowledge is developing at a rapidly increasing rate in implant dentistry, as in other areas of medicine. [...].

Professionalism and commercialism in esthetic dentistry

Oral and maxillofacial surgery advances in implant dentistry.

T dental implants are synonymous with osseointegration. The concept of osseointegration and its clinical application have positively impacted dentistry and revolutionized the ability to reconstruct the dentition and the craniofacial complex. The ability of the surgeon to precisely place bone-anchoring devices to support prostheses via osseointegration has markedly influenced the approach to rec...

A dental esthetic checklist for treatment planning in esthetic dentistry.

A dental esthetic checklist form has been introduced for use in the diagnostic work-up of a patient accepted for treatment in an Advanced Education in General Dentistry program. The checklist, divided into seven basic criteria, is not a complete list of all possible categories and nuances that an esthetic restorative assessment might include. The correct initial identification of these criteria...