During the last years, implant dentistry has seen an dramatic increase as a treatment option in oral rehabilitation. This is based to a large extent on scientific advances and clinical improvements in implantology. The extension of indications has broadened the opportunities to rehabilitate patients that were formerly considered to possess restricted indications to place implants. Additionally,...

Various radiographic and surgical techniques have been recommended to avoid paresthesia following mandibular implant placement. However, nerve impingement is sometimes inevitable, and when lingering numbness is reported, clinicians have a limited number of corrective options. This report describes a technique for cutting-back the apex of the implant, a technique that may be useful when lingerin...

Titanium (Ti) and titanium alloy have been widely used in orthopedics. However, the successful application of implants is mainly limited due to implant-associated infections. The implant surface contributes osseointegration, but also has risk accelerating growth bacterial colonies, surfaces infected with bacteria easily form biofilms that are resistant antibiotics. Biofilm-related infections a ...

Over the past few decades, carbon nanomaterials, including nanofibers, nanocrystalline diamonds, fullerenes, nanotubes, nanodots, and graphene its derivatives, have gained attention of bioengineers medical researchers as they possess extraordinary physicochemical, mechanical, thermal, electrical properties. Recently, surface functionalization with nanomaterials in dental orthopedic implants has...

The longevity of dental implants depends on osseointegration, which provides load-bearing capacity without putting the prosthesis at risk from micromotions at the implant-bone interface. This research involved an analysis of the viability of an ultrasonic evaluation tool to quantify osseointegration. Ultrasonic transmission is directly dependent on the difference between the acoustic impedance ...

*Correspondence: Tae-Il Kim (Editor-in-Chief) Department of Periodontology, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-749, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +82-2-2072-2642 Fax: +82-2-744-1349 On December 20th of this year, we lost one of the greatest innovators in dental science. Although Dr. Per-Ingvar Brånemark was not a dentist but an orthopedic s...