CURRENT CONCEPTS IN ESTHETIC APPROACH TO IMPLANT SURGERY

Current concepts in biomaterials in dental implant

Myriads of materials have been used for replacement of missing teeth through implantation. The success of these materials depend on the ability to integrate with the host environment showing biological compatibility, mechanical compatibility, and morphological compatibility to the surrounding vital tissues. Certain materials have shown this promising property and have been used in dental implan...

Current Concepts Surgery for Seizures

From the Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology and the Brain Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles. Address reprint requests to Dr. Engel at the Reed Neurological Research Ctr., 710 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769. Supported in part by grants (NS-02808, NS-15654, NS-33310, and GM24839) from the National Institutes of Health and a contract (DE-AC03-76SF00012) wi...

Introduction to "current concepts in pain management in plastic surgery".

Current Concepts in Hip Preservation Surgery

CONTEXT Successful treatment of nonarthritic hip pain in young athletic individuals remains a challenge. A growing fund of clinical knowledge has paralleled technical innovations that have enabled hip preservation surgeons to address a multitude of structural variations of the proximal femur and acetabulum and concomitant intra-articular joint pathology. Often, a combination of open and arthros...

Current Concepts in Anaesthesia for Shoulder Surgery

There has been an exponential growth in the volume of shoulder surgery in the last 2 decades and a very wide variety of anaesthetic techniques have emerged to provide anaesthesia and post-operative analgesia. In this article we examine current opinion, risks, benefits and practicalities of anaesthetic practice and the provision of post-operative analgesia for shoulder surgery.