Archive for December, 2013


COMPLICATIONS IN IMPLANT DENTISTRY P5

  Dr. Lavine: Okay.  So, you have mentioned the need to degranulate these immediate sites.  Have you ever used or read a literature about using a laser for that, a hard soft tissue laser, or is there a risk of damaging the bone if you did that?   Dr. Domingue: I’m guessing you’re talking about […]

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COMPLICATIONS IN IMPLANT DENTISTRY P4

  Dr. Domingue: Okay.  That’s a great question.  At the course, it’s going to be lots of lecturing on what we just talked about but absolutely in more details.  We’re also going to talk about complications during the surgery.  We’re going to talk about complications after the surgery and restorative complications like we talked about […]

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COMPLICATIONS IN IMPLANT DENTISTRY P3

You can think about doing a vestibuloplasty.  Those aren’t very predictable, and they’re hard to do and very hard on patients.  So, pre-operative planning.  If we had don’t pre-operative planning on this before, we would have gotten tissue around this implant on the buckle aspects. Collapse after extraction.  You will lose a lot of soft […]

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COMPLICATIONS IN IMPLANT DENTISTRY P2

Then, three years later, he comes back, and he’s got multiple issues here.  We’re not going to be crowning any teeth.  We need to remove all of his teeth.  He can’t control his caries risk. We can’t control his caries risk with the lack of saliva.  So, the ability to see this guy in one […]

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