Removal of an extensive mandibular odontoma using an intraoral approach.

Odontomas, the most common odontogenic tumors, occur more frequently in the maxilla and are rarely larger than a tooth. They are usually found incidentally on routine dental radiographs during the second decade of life. The treatment of choice is surgical removal, and large tumors are challenging as damage may occur to surrounding anatomic structures.

Atraumatic teeth extraction in bisphosphonate-treated patients.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to suggest an alternative technique for atraumatic teeth extraction that would prevent bone exposure and the associated complication of osteonecrosis of the jaws in bisphosphonate (BP)-treated patients, without terminating the treatment.

Patients And Methods: A total of 10 patients treated with BPs for multiple myeloma, metastatic breast cancer, and osteoporosis, requiring dental extractions of nontreatable teeth, were included in this study. The extractions were performed by means of orthodontic elastics placed around the roots, causing slow and gradual exfoliation of the teeth.

Intraoperative computerized navigation for flapless implant surgery and immediate loading in the edentulous mandible.

Computerized navigation surgery has evolved to facilitate minimally invasive procedures, the gold standard of surgery today. While flapless implant surgery may be clinically beneficial, it has generally been perceived as a blind procedure limited to straightforward cases that do not pose a risk of cortical plate perforation. The objective of this report is to describe a protocol for flapless implant placement in a completely edentulous mandible using computerized navigation surgery.

Image-guided navigation system for placing dental implants.

Navigation-guided surgery has recently been introduced into various surgical disciplines, including oral and maxillofacial surgery. Since the advent of dental implants, dental computed tomography (CT) scans have been used as a diagnostic tool for preoperative planning, but not as part of the surgical phase. This article explains the principles of computer-assisted surgery and describes the use of a computer-guided navigation system in dental implantology.

Navigation surgery for dental implants: assessment of accuracy of the image guided implantology system.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess the accuracy of the navigation provided by the Image Guided Implantology system (DenX Advanced Dental Systems, Moshav Ora, Israel), which was designed to guide the surgeon in the placement of dental implants.

Materials And Methods: Seven jaw models incorporating special ceramic spheres were imaged by dental computerized tomography. The coordinates of these reference ceramic markers were calculated by the Image Guided Implantology and compared with their actual position coordinates as identified on the computed tomography image.