Narrow-diameter implants in the anterior region: A meta-analysis.

Purpose: Implants in the anterior region are challenging, and literature reporting outcomes of narrow-diameter implants (NDIs) in anterior sites is scarce. This systematic review summarized evidence of functional and esthetic performance of anterior single crowns supported by NDIs.

Materials And Methods: Ten databases were searched to find studies evaluating anterior single crowns supported by NDIs.

Influence of Abutment Surface Treatments on Screw Loosening of Morse Taper Implants.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of blasting and bonding on abutment surface to prevent screw loosening in Morse taper connections.

Material And Methods: Twenty-eight Morse taper connection implants were divided into 4 groups: no treatment (G1), blasting (G2), bonding (G3), and blasting + bonding (G4). In groups G2 and G4, the abutments were blasted with aluminum oxide granules; in groups G3 and G4, the conical abutment region was covered with a thin layer of bond thread lock agent.

Comparative analysis of imaging techniques for diagnostic accuracy of peri-implant bone defects: a meta-analysis.

Objective: The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature regarding diagnostic accuracy of imaging techniques in detecting peri-implant bone defects.

Study Design: The search was performed in 8 electronic databases from April to May 2016 and updated in September 2016. Studies that assessed imaging techniques to detect peri-implant bone defects were analyzed.

Computer-aided analysis of digital dental impressions obtained from intraoral and extraoral scanners.

Statement Of Problem: The internal and marginal adaptation of a computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD-CAM) prosthesis relies on the quality of the 3-dimensional image. The quality of imaging systems requires evaluation.

Purpose: The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate and compare the trueness of intraoral and extraoral scanners in scanning prepared teeth.

Bone defect rehabilitation using lyophilized bone preshaped on a stereolithographic model.

Bone grafting provides ideal conditions to the patient's rehabilitation with dental implants. In addition, prototyped tridimensional models allow the surgical procedure to be simulated and enable important anatomic structures to be visualized. To present a bone defect rehabilitated with xenogenic bone preshaped on a stereolithographic model and the follow-up after 7 years of treatment.

CEREC Chairside System to Register and Design the Occlusion in Restorative Dentistry: A Systematic Literature Review.

Objective: The aim of this review was to update the literature with regard to the digital methods available by CEREC Chairside system to register and design the occlusion, to report their efficacy and technical innovations in the field of Restorative Dentistry. A search strategy was performed using the key-words: "virtual articulator," or "CAD-CAM and occlusal recording," or "CAD-CAM and occlusion register," or "CAD-CAM and occlusal contacts," or "CAD-CAM and prosthesis."

Material And Methods: Inclusion criteria comprised studies evaluating the use of digital methods available by CEREC System for occlusal registration and design during prosthodontics treatment.

Surface roughness of composite resins subjected to hydrochloric acid.

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of hydrochloric acid on surface roughness of composite resins subjected to brushing. Sixty samples measuring 2 mm thick x 6 mm diameter were prepared and used as experimental units. The study presented a 3x2 factorial design, in which the factors were composite resin (n=20), at 3 levels: microhybrid composite (Z100), nanofilled composite (FiltekTM Supreme), nanohybrid composite (Ice), and acid challenge (n=10) at 2 levels: absence and presence.