Treatment planning the endodontic-implant interface

An Important Dilemma in Treatment Planning: Implant or Endodontic Therapy?

One of the goals of a successful traditional dental practice has been the preservation and rehabilitation of a patient’s natural dentition. Endodontic treatment has played a key role in the retention and restoration of teeth affected by pulp and/or periapical pathosis. In earlier times, diseased teeth would invariably be extracted. The improvements in modern endodontic techniques for convention...

Treatment Planning: Comparing the Restored Endodontic Tooth and the Dental Implant

Treatment Planning the Implant Patient

Establishing and arriving at a Diagnosis is the key to treatment planning and often practitioners tend to create a treatment plan overlooking the fundamental principles that must be taken into consideration prior to performing implant surgeries. The sequential process of clinical examination, laboratory tests, radiographic analysis, diagnostic protocols of casts, wax ups, along with the treatme...

Orthodontic-endodontic treatment planning of traumatized teeth.

Occasionally, an orthodontic patient will accidentally traumatize a maxillary anterior tooth before or during orthodontic treatment. In some situations, the trauma will be substantial and avulse the tooth. In other accidents, the tooth may not avulse, but the pulp becomes nonvital. If the pulp is devitalized, and the root has not fully formed, the apex of the root canal may be wide. In this sit...

Treatment Planning for Implant Dentistry.