http://winning-smiles.co.uk/immediate-dental-implant-techniques/ Implant, Orthodontic and Cosmetic Dentistry Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:19:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://winning-smiles.co.uk/immediate-dental-implant-techniques/#comment-4920 Andrew Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:18:40 +0000 http://winning-smiles.co.uk/?p=172#comment-4920 Thanks for the feedback Dr Galal. We extract teeth and place immediate implants in about 30% of cases. We pick them very carefully but for those cases we do it works very well and almost certainly saves bone grafting following post-extraction collapse of the buccal plate. Obviously where no buccal plate is present things are much more complicated and we usually leave those and graft if necessary later on. Molar immediate implants are attractive too - especially those upper molars where there is enough bone for implantation between the roots but after 3 months post extraction it would have all shrunk and -again- a graft (in the sinus) is necessary. I have done a few of these and they have worked well but it is certainly less straightforward and not something I would recommend routinely. If you look at the work of Dr Howard Gluckman from Cape Town he is doing this a lot and getting consistent results. Hope this helps to get you started on immediates in the anterior - buzz me anytime if you have questions. andrew Thanks for the feedback Dr Galal.
We extract teeth and place immediate implants in about 30% of cases. We pick them very carefully but for those cases we do it works very well and almost certainly saves bone grafting following post-extraction collapse of the buccal plate. Obviously where no buccal plate is present things are much more complicated and we usually leave those and graft if necessary later on.
Molar immediate implants are attractive too – especially those upper molars where there is enough bone for implantation between the roots but after 3 months post extraction it would have all shrunk and -again- a graft (in the sinus) is necessary. I have done a few of these and they have worked well but it is certainly less straightforward and not something I would recommend routinely. If you look at the work of Dr Howard Gluckman from Cape Town he is doing this a lot and getting consistent results.
Hope this helps to get you started on immediates in the anterior – buzz me anytime if you have questions.
andrew

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