Distraction osteogenesis for correction of horizontal alveolar width deficiency was performed for 9 patients by using an alveolar crest widening device. Four prototypes were used during the course of the study until a final protocol was achieved. Under local anesthesia, a blind crestal osteotomy was carried out with minimal periosteal reflection. The horizontal distraction device was placed per...

Implant placement in the edentulous anterior mandible is relatively considered a routine and safe procedure. The interforaminal area is the usual area in the mandible for implant placement for the support and retention of a fixed partial denture or removable overdenture. This region is also the usual donor site of bone grafts. However, implant placement, like any other surgical procedure, is no...

OBJECTIVE Capsular contracture is a common complication associated with reconstructive breast surgery. The optimal time interval between the completion of tissue expansion and placement of the permanent implant is arbitrary and incompletely studied in the literature. The aim of the study was to determine whether the time interval between completion of expansion and placement of the permanent im...

The prerequisites of a successful dental implant are the achievement and maintenance of implant stability. Implant stability may be well-defined as the lack of clinical mobility that is also described as osseo integration. As a mechanical phenomenon, primary implant at placement is associated with quantity and quality of the local bone, the kind of implant method and placement used. Secondary i...

Research has shown that tooth loss results in morphological changes in alveolar ridge that may influence the subsequent implant placement. Immediate implant placement was introduced as a possible means to limit bone resorption and reduce the number of surgical procedures following tooth extraction. Histological and clinical evidence from human clinical studies showing efficacy of immediate impl...

objective: to study the accuracy of spiral tomography in the determination of implant angulation. materials and methods: eighteen gutta-percha filled points on dry mandibles were selected for implant placement. a translucent acrylic template was fabricated for each mandible. after preparing tomographic images (2 mm slice thickness, cranex tome), the ideal axis of the implant was traced. the ang...

PURPOSE In this study, standard Brånemark System implants and Brånemark TiUnite implants were evaluated regarding primary stability and placement torque. The correlation between placement torque and primary stability as well as the influence of implant design on placement torque and primary stability were examined. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twelve patients who presented bilateral loss of either m...

BACKGROUND The healing of xenograft augmentated intra-alveolar gaps following immediate implant placement (IMIP) after tooth extraction is likely to differ in time and density compared to the native bone part that directly contacts the implant. MATERIAL AND METHODS Secondary implant stability (SIS) data recorded 2-3 months following a late implant placement protocol (LIP) (n= 43) and 6-8 mont...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this article is to systematically review diagnostic procedures and risk factors associated with inferior alveolar nerve injury following implant placement, to identify the time interval between inferior alveolar nerve injury and its diagnosis after surgical dental implant placement and compare between outcomes of early and delayed diagnosis and treatment given based on...

PURPOSE To assess the results and long-term prognosis of evisceration with primary porous implant placement in patients with endophthalmitis. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted to review the files of 27 patients (29 eyes) with endophthalmitis who underwent evisceration with primary porous implant placement from January 1997 to December 2007 at St. Mary's Hospital and Kangnam St. Mary...