Implant or the natural tooth-a contemporary treatment planning dilemma?

An Important Dilemma in Treatment Planning: Implant or Endodontic Therapy?

One of the goals of a successful traditional dental practice has been the preservation and rehabilitation of a patient’s natural dentition. Endodontic treatment has played a key role in the retention and restoration of teeth affected by pulp and/or periapical pathosis. In earlier times, diseased teeth would invariably be extracted. The improvements in modern endodontic techniques for convention...

Restoration or implant placement: a growing treatment planning quandary.

Each year endosseous dental implants gain greater acceptance among clinicians and patients. This has come about for several reasons, including excellent success rates published in long-term studies, improvements in fixture and abutment designs, more predictable surgical placement techniques, and increased consumer desire to have tooth replacement. Regardless of the implant system, the placement...

Treatment Planning the Implant Patient

Establishing and arriving at a Diagnosis is the key to treatment planning and often practitioners tend to create a treatment plan overlooking the fundamental principles that must be taken into consideration prior to performing implant surgeries. The sequential process of clinical examination, laboratory tests, radiographic analysis, diagnostic protocols of casts, wax ups, along with the treatme...

Treatment Planning: Comparing the Restored Endodontic Tooth and the Dental Implant

The treatment dilemma of the furcated molar: root resection versus single-tooth implant restoration. A literature review.

Successful treatment of furcated molar teeth presents the periodontist and prosthodontist with a challenging dilemma. Accepted treatment modalities include chemotherapeutic maintenance, root planning, open flap debridement, modified Widman flap, bone grafting with and without guided tissue regeneration, and osseous resection with and without root removal. Determining the appropriate treatment f...