Immediate implants: are the safe?

Since the first appearance and popularization of dental implants, different techniques and materials have been developed, leading to a great variety of treatment options. Treatment times have been one of the issues most influenced by such development. Constant pressure and increased demands from patients led dentists to shorten the "standard protocol" times, instead placing and...

Loss of alveolar bone may be attributed to a variety of factors, such as endodontic pathology, periodontitis, facial trauma, and aggresive maneuvers during extraction. The consequence is usually the loss of the ridge contours, leading to esthetic problems or impairing ideal implant placement. It is possible to minimize such problems by performing ridge preservation procedures...

Oral implantology is one of the pillars of contemporary dentistry. It is a conservative therapy that avoids preparation of healthy teeth, and stimulates bone preservation with implant loading in cases where teeth have been lost. In the last 30 years, the use of osseointegrated dental implants has resulted in increased survival rates. Some prospective studies...

  Dental implant success relies on the conjuntion of optimal esthetic and mechanical parameters. These, in turn, depend on the characteristics and stability of the bond created between the implant and its surrounding bone. More than 30 years ago, Albrektsson et al. described the six factors that influence the interfacial bone-implant bonding: surgical technique; host...