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STUDY: Natural Tooth Preservation Versus Extraction and Implant Placement

Dentistry Blog

Modern endodontics offers patients advancements in technologies, procedures, and materials. For your patients who have diseased or damaged teeth, giving your patients treatment options to either save their natural teeth or extract teeth and replace with dental implants is beneficial to help meet their aesthetic, functional, and economic needs. It is important to explain all of the options to your patients, so they understand how specific treatments will affect them.

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Peri-implant Diseases

Central Ohio Periodontics

This is the first of a five-part newsletter series that discusses etiology, risk factors, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of peri-implant disease. Peri-implant diseases are defined as disease processes that affect the surrounding tissue of a dental implant. The two types are: • Peri-implant mucositis – soft tissue inflammatory condition affecting implant sites with no evidence of bone loss. • Peri-implantitis – an inflammatory condition affecting implant sites that al

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The importance of a good temporary crown or provisional restoration

Implantation Dental Center

Any dental procedure or implantation has the potential to be uncomfortable for the patient. Sometimes the period between the initial consultation visit and the final procedure that results in the. Read More. The post The importance of a good temporary crown or provisional restoration appeared first on Implantation Dental Center. The post The importance of a good temporary crown or provisional restoration appeared first on Implantation Dental Center.