Is the postoperative discomfort after connective tissue harvesting from the palate influenced by the use of a bipolar coagulator? A randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effect of the use of a bipolar coagulator on postoperative pain and complications when used during connective tissue harvesting from the palate.

Material And Methods: A randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted with 57 sequential patients requiring a connective tissue graft for periodontal or implant surgery. All samples were harvested superficially and de-epithelized outside the mouth.

Framework Fracture of Zirconia Supported Full Arch Implant Rehabilitation: A Retrospective Evaluation of Cantilever Length and Distal Cross-Sectional Connection Area in 140 Patients Over an Up-To-7 Year Follow-Up Period.

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between different dimensional parameters in implant-supported monolithic zirconia fixed complete dental prostheses (IFCDPs) and the incidence of framework fracture in a large sample of cases in vivo.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective observational study evaluated all patients rehabilitated with screw-retained zirconia IFCDPs between January 2013 and April 2019 at a private practice. The minimum follow-up period was 1 year after occlusal loading.

Immediate implant placement and loading in the esthetic area when the buccal socket wall is significantly damaged.

Objectives: Recent clinical recommendations contraindicate immediate implant placement when the socket buccal bone plate is significantly damaged. The connective tissue graft (CTG) is increasingly being used in implant therapy and can replace periodontal defects lacking bone wall in periodontal regenerative surgery. Therefore, CTG could be used to allow immediate implant placement and loading even when the buccal socket wall is damaged, facilitating graft material stability.

Conservative Nonsurgical Treatment of Class 4 Invasive Cervical Resorption: A Case Series.

External cervical resorption, also called invasive cervical resorption (ICR), is a pathological process difficult to diagnose that causes a progressive replacement of dentin by granulation tissue and results in complete tooth destruction. According to the literature, class 4 ICR can be expected to have success rates of 12.5% if treated.