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• cory c. on Dental Implant Spinning in Socket: How to Manage?
  because i hate remakes i've tried to salvage the spinners i've had in various ways with overall about 50% success rate. i've done the careful removal ...
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• Richard Hughes DDS, FAAID, FAAIP, Dipl.ABOI/ID on Maxillary Dentures Supported by Mushroom-Shaped Mucosal Implants?
  Mucosal Inserts are a great treatment option for the max denture. You can obtain the inserts from Park Dental Research, New York, NY. I use these in...
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• kel on Maxillary Dentures Supported by Mushroom-Shaped Mucosal Implants?
  Sounds like you may be refering to the Biomet technique with the Concial Abutment technique. There is also a german technique called Konus crowns. If ...
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• Joan on Anklyos Implants: Looking for Guidance Before Switching to this System
  What are the viws on Adin Implant system from Isreal...
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• someone on Search on for Way to Grow New Teeth
  Can we have an update on this situation? It looks like this article was posted nearly 5 years ago. I really need this to be soon....
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• Dr. P.P. on How Do I Determine if the Implants are Osseointegrated?
  In an uneventfull healing all implants will osseointegrate. Take an Xray : no black lines or images. Unscrew the cover or the healing screw: no pain...
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• Dr. P.P. on Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?
  The comments about Replace are right, but the mistake was to indicate an implant that was developed originally for immediate postextraction placement ...
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• Dr. Akers on Alternative to Bone Grafts for Implants?
  I have been placing bone grafts of different types for over thirty years. I totally agree with Dr.Craig Misch. A small simple autogenous bone graft fr...
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• Dr. P. on Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?
  May sound unorthodox but we keep our implants in the freezer until placement. In woodworking or tightening a screw into sheet metal, you can feel the...
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• Richard Hughes DDS, FAAID, FAAIP, Dipl.ABOI/ID on Using Osteotomes to Place Implants: Avoid Membrane Perforation?
  The discussion about the length of the root form implant in the posterior mand or mx is a good one. I use Bicons, AB Dental, MIS and LaminOss. If y...
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• tony collins on Using Osteotomes to Place Implants: Avoid Membrane Perforation?
  To test for perforation of the membrane, simply pinch the patient's nostrils and have them puff gently through their nose. If perforated,you will get...
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• Bruce Laurie on Too Much Insertion Pressure When Placing Implants Leading to Pain?
  If one considers that lack of motion is the goal in having a smaller osteotomy than implant a spade 0.2mm smaller than the implant will do the job nic...
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• David Levitt on Too Much Insertion Pressure When Placing Implants Leading to Pain?
  You mentioned pain and swelling rather than just pain. You also mentioned that loosening the implant did not help. You did not mention if this was a ...
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• David Levitt on Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?
  I have had many cases like this one in which a backed the implant up 1/2 turn and the pain magically went away. What we have to consider is whether y...
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• Dr. Dennis Nimchuk on Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?
  Compression Ossteonecrosis is a term that derived shortly after Nobel introduced the Replace implant which is a tapering implant placed into a taperin...
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• Richard Hughes DDS, FAAID, FAAIP, Dipl.ABOI/ID on Using Osteotomes to Place Implants: Avoid Membrane Perforation?
  Mike of 25 June 2009, If you are performing a Sommers Uplift and want to determine if there is a perf of the membrane, youcan do one of two things; ...
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• gerald on Using Osteotomes to Place Implants: Avoid Membrane Perforation?
  I use short implants all the time and they seem to do as well as others. If I have 8mm of bone I would rather use an 8mm implant vs doing a sinus lif...
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• Joseph Kim, DDS on Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?
  Sounds like trauma to the periosteum. This happens to my patients from time to time any time we traumatize the periosteum. This includes PDL injecti...
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• Dutchy on Using Osteotomes to Place Implants: Avoid Membrane Perforation?
  What is the problem with short implants? If it goes wrong it just take less time when they come out by them self. So because of the less length the s...
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• Dutchy on Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?
  Is it the toque or does your patient you descripe as being frail and middle aged, uses medication. I will think about medication against osteoporosis,...
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• William on Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?
  Can compression cause resorption ? No question, compression can cause resorption. We see it in oral surgery all the time. Soft tissue, muscle pull,...
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• Dutchy on Too Much Insertion Pressure When Placing Implants Leading to Pain?
  If I read your comments well, I think you compress the bone to much. This compression has gone also to the apex portion of the implant and giving a pr...
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• Peter Fairbairn on Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?
  Paolo Trisi has a very interesting lecture and research on this topic where he torques the implants to over 100 Nm with no ill effects. Possibly the t...
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• Dr. Suhail on Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?
  Dr. Robert's technique of over preparing, inducing new bone using bone analogues and place implant after 5 months is what i feel is very aggresive and...
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• Dr. Suhail on Possible to Cause Compression Necrosis by Tightening Too Much?
  dear doctor your patient is suffering from burnt bone syndrome. The etiology was high torque used to install a dental implant and to faster tightening...
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