Implant Restorations

The fourth edition of Implant Restorations: A Step-by-Step Guide provides a wealth of updated and expanded coverage on detailed procedures for restoring dental implants. Focusing on the most common treatment scenarios, it offers concise literature reviews for each chapter and easy-to-follow descriptions of the techniques, along with high-quality clinical photographs demonstrating each step.

Comprehensive throughout, this practical guide begins with introductory information on incorporating implant restorative dentistry in clinical practice. It covers diagnosis and treatment planning and digital dentistry, and addresses advances in cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT), treatment planning software, computer generated surgical guides, rapid prototype printing and impression-less implant restorative treatments, intra-oral scanning, laser sintering, and printing/milling polymer materials. Record-keeping, patient compliance, hygiene regimes, and follow-up are also covered.

• Provides an accessible step-by-step guide to commonly encountered treatment scenarios, describing procedures and techniques in an easy-to-follow, highly illustrated format

• Offers new chapters on diagnosis and treatment planning and digital dentistry

• Covers advances in cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT), computer generated surgical guides, intra-oral scanning, laser sintering, and more

An excellent and accessible guide on a burgeoning subject in modern dental practice by one of its most experienced clinicians, Implant Restorations: A Step-by-Step Guide, Fourth Edition will appeal to prosthodontists, general dentists, implant surgeons, dental students, dental assistants, hygienists, and dental laboratory technicians.

Auteur

The Author Carl Drago, DDS, MS, Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics (ABP), is in private practice near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; is a section editor for the Journal of Prosthodontics; and is an adjunct associate professor at the Marquette University School of Dentistry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

Texte du rabat
Presents the latest information on restoring dental implants, addressing new advances in treatment planning and procedures The fourth edition of Implant Restorations: A Step-by-Step Guide provides a wealth of updated and expanded coverage on detailed procedures for restoring dental implants. Focusing on the most common treatment scenarios, it offers concise literature reviews for each chapter and easy-to-follow descriptions of the techniques, along with high-quality clinical photographs demonstrating each step. Comprehensive throughout, this practical guide begins with introductory information on incorporating implant restorative dentistry in clinical practice. It covers diagnosis and treatment planning and digital dentistry, and addresses advances in cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT), treatment planning software, computer generated surgical guides, rapid prototype printing and impression-less implant restorative treatments, intra-oral scanning, laser sintering, and printing/milling polymer materials. Record-keeping, patient compliance, hygiene regimes, and follow-up are also covered.

• Provides an accessible step-by-step guide to commonly encountered treatment scenarios, describing procedures and techniques in an easy-to-follow, highly illustrated format
• Offers new chapters on diagnosis and treatment planning and digital dentistry
• Covers advances in cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT), computer generated surgical guides, intra-oral scanning, laser sintering, and more An excellent and accessible guide on a burgeoning subject in modern dental practice by one of its most experienced clinicians, Implant Restorations: A Step-by-Step Guide, Fourth Edition will appeal to prosthodontists, general dentists, implant surgeons, dental students, dental assistants, hygienists, and dental laboratory technicians.

Résumé
The fourth edition of Implant Restorations: A Step-by-Step Guide provides a wealth of updated and expanded coverage on detailed procedures for restoring dental implants. Focusing on the most common treatment scenarios, it offers concise literature reviews for each chapter and easy-to-follow descriptions of the techniques, along with high-quality clinical photographs demonstrating each step.

Comprehensive throughout, this practical guide begins with introductory information on incorporating implant restorative dentistry in clinical practice. It covers diagnosis and treatment planning and digital dentistry, and addresses advances in cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT), treatment planning software, computer generated surgical guides, rapid prototype printing and impression-less implant restorative treatments, intra-oral scanning, laser sintering, and printing/milling polymer materials. Record-keeping, patient compliance, hygiene regimes, and follow-up are also covered.

• Provides an accessible step-by-step guide to commonly encountered treatment scenarios, describing procedures and techniques in an easy-to-follow, highly illustrated format
• Offers new chapters on diagnosis and treatment planning and digital dentistry
• Covers advances in cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT), computer generated surgical guides, intra-oral scanning, laser sintering, and more
  An excellent and accessible guide on a burgeoning subject in modern dental practice by one of its most experienced clinicians, Implant Restorations: A Step-by-Step Guide, Fourth Edition will appeal to prosthodontists, general dentists, implant surgeons, dental students, dental assistants, hygienists, and dental laboratory technicians.

Contenu

List of Contributors xiii

Foreword xv

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xix

1 Introduction to Implant Dentistry 1

Introduction 1

Purpose of Textbook 1

Conventional Dentistry Versus Implant Dentistry 2

Predictability of Fixed Prosthodontics 2

Predictability of Implant Prosthodontics 3

Economics of Implant Dentistry 4

Prognostic Indicators for Teeth 5

Periodontal Disease 5

The Heavily Restored Tooth 6

The Furcation-Involved Tooth 8

The Periodontal Prosthesis Patient 9

Difficult Aesthetic Cases 10

Classification of Ridge Defects 12

Treatment Prognosis for the Dentition 15

Summary 18

Bibliography 18

2 Implants and Implant Restorative Components 21

Introduction 21

Implants 21

Implant/Abutment Connections 25

External Implant/Abutment Connections 25

Internal Implant/Abutment Connections 27

Healing Abutments 30

Conventional, Stock Healing Abutments 30

CAD/CAM Healing Abutments 32

Custom Healing Abutments 34

Impression Copings 35

Implant Impression Copings 35

Pickup Impression Copings (Open Tray) 36

Transfer Impression Copings (Closed Tray) 37

Low-Profile Conical Abutment Impression Copings 38

Scan Bodies 38

Abutments 39

Low-Profile Conical Abutments (LPCA) 40

LOCATOR Overdenture Abutments 41

Stock Abutments 42

UCLA Abutments 44

CAD/CAM Abutments 47

Milled Titanium 47

Milled Zirconia 50

Multiunit Abutments 54

Screws (Clinical) 54

Abutment/Retaining Screws 55

Preload Screw Mechanics 56

Cylinders 57

Definitive Cylinders 57

Interim Cylinders 57

Drivers and Placement Instruments 58

Drivers/Driver Tips 58

Laboratory Components 60

Implant Analogs/Replicas 61

Abutment Analogs/Replicas 62

Try-In Screws 63

Abutment Holders 63

Polishing Protectors 64

Bibliography 65

3 Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Implant Restorative Dentistry 69

Patient Selection 69

Medical History 69

Diagnostic Procedures 70

Radiographs 70

CBCT (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) Scans 72

Scanning Appliances/Surgical Guides 74

Diagnostic Casts 75

Laboratory-Generated Surgical Guides 75

Physical Examination 78 …