Implants in Clinical Dentistry

Overview

The second edition of the bestselling guide, Implants in Clinical Dentistry, considers the practical features that a clinician needs to know for successful treatment planning, surgical implantation, and long-term maintenance.

Key topics

• Treatment planning.
• Immediate implant placement.
• Long term maintenance.
• Illustrated with full colour clinical images and authored by a team from King’s College London Dental Institute, this will be an ideal text for Restorative/Conservative Dentists, Periodontologists, Prosthodontists and Facial Aesthetic Clinicians.

Contents

• Overview of implant dentistry
• Treatment planning: general considerations
• Single tooth planning in the anterior region
• Single tooth planning for molar replacements
• Fixed bridge planning
• Diagnosis and treatment planning for implant overdentures
• Basic factors in implant surgery
• Flap design for implant surgery
• Surgical placement of the single tooth implant in the anterior maxilla
• Implant placement for fixed bridgework
• Immediate and early replacement implants
• Grafting procedures for implant placement
• Single tooth implant prosthodontics
• Fixed bridge prosthodontics
• Implant overdentures
• Complications and maintenance
• Prosthodontic complications of implant treatment and maintenance of implant overdentures

Authors

Richard M. Palmer and Leslie Howe, Implant Dentistry and Periodontology, King's College London Dental Institute, UK