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Juan Carlos Bernabeu-mira

Diagnosis and Planning in Immediate Loading: Prosthetic Diagnosis

Immediate loading provides functional and esthetic advantages, improving the quality of life of the patient during the osseointegration period. But, clinicians have to know that the three key parameters that should be evaluated for prosthetic planning of the totally edentulous patient are prosthetic space, lip support, and smile line. This is a crucial part of the planning because the prosthetic space, lip support, and smile line determine the type of prosthetic restoration.

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Immediate Loading with Fixed Full-Arch Prosthesis in the Edentulous Patient: Treatment Protocol

Immediate loading is basically a prosthetic concept. However, the surgical implantological planning is very important to ensure a primary stability in the total edentulous patient. This characteristic is crucial to allow immediate loading in this type of patients. For the first time, the incisional design has allowed the clinician to overview about the surgical side. Later, maybe, the bone will need an osteoplasty to regularize possible bone defects. To ensure primary stability, it can use methods to enhance primary stability as undersized drilling technique and use of osteotomes and bi-cortical anchorage implants. There are two main protocols to obtain temporary immediate loading full-arch…

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Biomechanics and Occlusion in Immediate Loading

In this chapter, biomechanical concepts as tension, types of forces, and static and dynamic loads in oral implantology are explained. Also, biomechanical factors as type of bone, implant design, switching platform, connection type, crown-implant ratio, and passive fit are exposed. So, it is important to know keys for biomechanical control and occlusal pattern. The lowering of tensions is one of our aims when planning cases for immediate loading, since we know the complications they can cause. It is therefore necessary to reduce the incident forces or increase the surface upon which they fall. Increasing the number of implants is the most effective method for improving surface area and reduc…

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Prescription of Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Dental Implant Surgery in Healthy Patients: A Systematic Review of Survey-Based Studies

Background: Systemic antibiotic prophylaxis is frequently prescribed by dentists performing dental implant surgery to avoid premature implant failure and postoperative infections. The scientific literature suggests that a single preoperative dose suffices to reduce the risk of early dental implant failure in healthy patients.Material and Methods: A systematic review was made based on an electronic literature search in the PubMed-Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus and Open Gray databases. The review addressed the question: “which antibiotic prophylaxis regimens are being used in dental implant surgery in healthy patients according to survey-based studies?” The identification, screening,…

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Bone Regeneration and Soft Tissue Enhancement Around Zygomatic Implants: Retrospective Case Series

Purpose: To present a case series of zygomatic implants combined with bone regeneration and soft tissue enhancement techniques to reduce the risk of biological delayed complications such as maxillary sinusitis and soft tissue recession. Materials and methods: Zygomatic implants placed simultaneously with different bone regeneration techniques (buccal, palatal and buccal-palatal bone regeneration) and soft tissue enhancement techniques (pediculate and free connective tissue graft) were followed for at least 12 months. The following information was collected: patient age and sex, number of zygomatic implants, zygomatic implant success rate, zygomatic implant position according to classificati…

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In Vitro Study on Bone Heating during Drilling of the Implant Site: Material, Design and Wear of the Surgical Drill

Objective: An in vitro study was made to compare mean thermal variation according to the material, design and wear of the surgical drills used during dental implant site preparation. Material and methods: Three study groups (stainless steel drills with straight blades

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