Unconventional implant placement. V: Implant placement through impacted teeth; results from 10 cases with an 8- to 1-year follow-up.

The aim of this paper is to document additional cases to an unconventional protocol published in 2009. In 9 patients, sites rendered edentulous by the presence of an impacted maxillary canine were treated with 12 implants placed through the impacted canines. In another patient, 3 implants were inserted in the mandible to rehabilitate a failing bridge.

Unconventional Implant Placement IV. Implant Placement through Impacted Teeth to Avoid Invasive Surgery. Long-term Results of 3 Cases.

This paper presents the long-term data of patients that have been treated with an unconventional implant placement protocol to avoid an invasive surgery when edentulism was caused by an impacted tooth. In 2009, the follow-up of this unconven-tional protocol was 2 to 3.5 years; this article documents now the long-term 5- to 8-year follow-up of 3 patients and 5 im-plants.

Unconventional Implant Placement Part III: Implant Placement Encroaching upon Residual Roots - A Report of Six Cases.

Background: When a residual root is found in the way of a planned implant placement, invasive surgery is usually performed in order to remove it. Consequently, implant therapy is rendered more complex and lengthy.

Purpose: We present 6 cases treated according to an unconventional protocol in which invasive surgery was avoided by allowing the implants to encroach upon the residual roots in order to permit a prosthetically driven surgery.

[Implants in contact with tissues other than bone. Is there room for a potential paradigm shift?].

Rationale: Modern dental implantology is now 30 year old. During this period of time, concepts have evolved and triggered several paradigm shifts. The aim of the present paper is to present a case treated with an innovative unconventional protocol.

Technique to Obtain a Predictable Aesthetic Result through Appropriate Placement of the Prosthesis/Soft Tissue Junction in the Edentulous Patient with a Gingival Smile.

Background: Treating the edentulous patient with a gingival smile requires securing the prosthesis/soft tissue junction (PSTJ) under the upper lip.

Purpose: To present a simple method that helps achieve a predictable aesthetic result when alveoplasty of the anterior maxilla is needed to place implants apical to the presurgical position of the alveolar ridge.

Materials And Methods: The maximum smile line of the patient is recorded and carved on a thin silicone bite impression as a soft tissue landmark.

Unconventional implant treatment: I. Implant placement in contact with ankylosed root fragments. A series of five case reports.

Objective: Implant treatment presumes that implants are placed in bone, without any contact with root. At ankylosed teeth, complete root removal is often invasive; subsequently, the sites require additional augmentation procedures to complete the treatment. The aim of this paper is to report on a series of five cases that have been treated with an approach that avoided extractive invasive surgery and bone damage.

Prosthetic success with a maxillary immediate-loading protocol in the multiple-risk patient.

The application of immediate loading of implants in the edentulous maxilla in multiple-risk patients is presented. Five partially edentulous patients attended with failing prostheses supported by hopeless teeth. An immediate-loading protocol was proposed because the patients rejected provisionalization with a removable prosthesis.

Preliminary data of a prospective clinical study on the Osseotite NT implant: 18-month follow-up.

Purpose: This article provides preliminary clinical results on the Osseotite NT implant, which was developed to simplify surgical procedure and cover an extended range of indications. Placement characteristics of NT and standard Osseotite implants were also compared in an in vitro study.

Materials And Methods: The in vitro placement characteristics of NT and standard Osseotite implants of 4.

A prospective multicenter evaluation of 1,583 3i implants: 1- to 5-year data.

Purpose: The purpose of this prospective multicenter study was to evaluate the efficacy of 3i threaded implants for the treatment of edentulous patients in a 1- to 5-year period. This article reports the total data and global results of 3 threaded designs of 3i implants: self-tapping, ICE, and Osseotite.

Materials And Methods: A total of 1,583 implants (619 ICE, 545 Osseotite, and 419 self-tapping) were placed between 1995 and 1999 in 528 patients at 13 European clinical centers.