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Dental Implants – Screwed Joints

Dentures — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:29:34 +0000

Screwed Joint is one way of joining implant superstructures to the abutment. Screwed Joint functions by virtue of its components being held tightly together by the tension in the screw acting after the fashion of a spring. Advantages 1. Retrievability 2. Control of Gap 3. Predictable Future Failure Disadvantages 1. Mechanical Failure. It can be [...]

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Reconstruction Grafts for Alveolar Ridge

Dentures — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:18:06 +0000

In reconstruction procedures in Dental Implant Cases, autogenous grafts are preferred to allogenic materials. It has been accepted by several implantologists that the main handicap with autogenous grafts is the secondary wound site. There’s an increase in infection risk in the donor site from which the graft is taken. There also an alternative method of [...]

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Bone Volume for Dental Implants

Dentures — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:59:14 +0000

Surgical Methods to Create Bone Volume for Dental Implants 1. Autogenous bone grafts 2. Guided bone regeneration 3. Allogenic demineralized bone powder and hydroxyapatite 4. Titanium mesh with bone grafts technique 5. Distraction osteogenesis 6. Interpositional bone grafts Bone Volume for Dental Implants is a post from: Dental Implants

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Bone Graft

Dentures — Sat, 22 May 2010 08:50:47 +0000

Most bone augmentation procedures involve the use of bone grafts. The best material for a bone graft is the patient’s own bone, which most likely will come from chin or ramus. If the dentist can not get enough bone from these areas, he or she may need to get bone from the patient hip or [...]

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Bone Augmentation

Dentures — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:59:39 +0000

The jawbone must have enough bone to support dental implants. There may be no enough bone because of tooth loss from periodontal (gum) disease, injury or trauma, or a developmental defect. If the jaw is too short (up and down), too narrow (side to side), or both, a procedure is needed to add bone to [...]

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