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Part A:
Implant dentistry is at an unprecedented peak and the market today is saturated with new implant manufacturers, new implant brands, new surfaces and new marketing strategies.
The improvements in implant technology and its practical application in the clinic are not a function primarily of one specific implant surface, a treatment procedure, or some particular loading protocol. Rather it can be understood by conceptualizing the individual elements involved in placing implants to support an intraoral prosthesis. It is the refinement of each of these individual elements that has contributed to improve the technology to solve our patients’ problems.
Implant therapy involves three intertwined treatment planning phases; i.e., the total treatment planning, the surgery planning and the restorative planning phase. These planning phases take into account patient-centered considerations, for example, risk factors, healing predictability and consideration of the probabilities of possible outcomes of different implant interventions.
The actual interventions fall into four categories, i.e., the diagnostic, the pre-surgical, the surgical and the restorative; finally, each of the interventions involves the use of different medical devices and biomaterials, i.e., diagnostic tools, grafting material for site optimizing, the implant and abutment material, geometry and surface treatment and ultimately the different components of the supra-construction.
This session addresses what is emerging as new and innovative patient care in implant dentistry within these domains.
Part B:
Cross-sectional imaging studies of the jaws are commonly performed in patients prior to the placement of dental implants to assess the amount of available bone, bone contour, and the positions of nearby anatomic structures. Such studies rely on the generation of thin, buccal-lingual/palatal cross-sectional images or slices through the region(s) of interest.
Today, many of these studies employ the use of spiral or cone beam computed tomography. This presentation will focus on the use of multi-dimensional CT imaging in the treatment planning of patients for dental implants. Specifically, decision-making processes for selecting technical parameters that impact on image acquisition and quality will be discussed, patient positioning issues, image volume/field of view choices, image resolution, the selection of slice thicknesses and interslice intervals, radiation dose and radiographic stent fabrication.
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Scientific Evidence, Radiology in Implant Dentistry