I thank you all for your valuable inputs. This patient is my mother in law and she has very limited resources. Thus, implant must be placed by me. I was hoping to place 2 implants using in part tooth supported guide by Anatomage, wait until they osseointegrate, while she can utilize her existing partial. Once implants are ready to be loaded, I would make her immediate implant supported lower denture and add two more implants to her left side and wait until her left side integrates before loading.
You have mentioned that implants are positioned too coronally, at this point base on measurements of 3D images I have about 17 mm from occasional plane. One of pictures shows that implant is submerged, is that still considered coronal placement. You have mentioned to bring implants closer to mental foramen, which I am somewhat hesitant. According to what I know mental nerve travels at times forward of mental foramen to about ~5mm. My measurements show about 6-7 mm away from the opening of mental foramen. In regards to angulation if I plan my implants so that trajectory of the plants exits from the cingulum of her natural teeth, would that be sufficient for locator attachment or in denture cases it should be more lingualized. Also, if you were to plan this case what implant diameter and height would you use, assuming either 3.5 or 4.3 in diameter. Thank you and your help in this matter greatly appreciated.
Denture Guy
1/10/2018
As above you need to remove bone for any restoration you do here Generally as a rule you would remove to where the trajectory of the bone changes and in immediate cases you would take bone down to the apices of the teeth . This is not a cingulum guided restoration because this is an edentulous case. The needs are different here. If you look at the angulation of the lower incisors they angle to the buccal and you would think that is the angle you want and it would be if you are dealing with natural teeth and you might use the cingulum as your 'guide'. With edentulous cases you need 12- 15 mm of clearance. The facial of the clinical crown of the incisor is 10mm. If you create the distance for 12- 15 mm you need you will usually find that to put in an adequate size implant in length you would actually exit the lingual of the bone because the trajectory of the bone or angle of the bone shifts from the angle of the incisors to an angle that runs from the tongue towards the facial Look at scans of this area and you will see this. Also the bone around the incisors is thin B/L.. If you remove bone down to where it widens you will see that you can put the implant in with angulation that parallels the buccal plate (in your case) and it will emerge behind the incisor of your denture this will leave you enough acrylic around your housings to cover for esthetics and give you adequate strength. You may notice that surgeons that aren't aware of this will often put the implant in the incisors sockets at extraction because it is easy to follow the socket. If this is done for an FP2, FP3,RP4 or 5 you could have a difficult resorative challenge