Dental Implant Complications–Systemic Diseases-PART-I

Effect of dental implant diameter on fatigue performance. Part I: mechanical behavior.

AIM The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the implants' diameter on the mechanical function and load-fatigue performance of dental implants. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three groups of implants with different diameters (3.3 mm, 3.75 mm and 5 mm), were tested under static and cyclic compressive loading. A total number of 15 implants for the static test and 112 implants for the cycl...

The role of cements in dental implant success, Part 2.

Simple modeling systems can be used to demonstrate how cement flows, helping with the understanding of how luting cements work as liquids, knowledge of how much is required, application techniques, and how simple modifications to abutment design can be of benefit to the implant restoring dentist.

Part I – Adhesion On Dental Substrates

Apitherapy - A sweet approach to dental diseases. Part II: Propolis

“Look back into the nature and then you will understand everything better.” This quote by Albert Einstein clearly point towards the paradigm shift from costlier antibiotic therapies to the old tradition remedies with minimum side effects like apitherapy. Apitherapy is the medicinal use of products made by honeybees. Therapies involving the honeybee have existed for thousands of years and some m...

Medical contraindications to implant therapy: part I: absolute contraindications.

In order to ensure implant success, it is essential to select patients who do not possess local or systemic contraindications to therapy. Hence, it is the purpose of this paper to review the medical diseases that reportedly preclude conventional dental implant treatment. Absolute contraindications to implant rehabilitation include recent myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accident, valvu...