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Recommended Books on Dental Implants

A Patient's Guide to Dental Implants

Contemporary Implant Dentistry Implants are increasingly used by the dental profession to replace missing teeth or upgrade existing removable dentures. CONTEMPORARY IMPLANT DENTISTRY, written by the foremost dental implantologist in the United States, reviews the most popular implant systems. This comprehensive book focuses on patient selection, diagnosis, treatment, and management, including long-term follow-up care. The book follows a practitioner's thought process when planning and implementing an implant placement. Featured in the book are anatomy, medical evaluation, interaction with specialists, and treatment complications.

* Provides objective appraisal of various implant systems so practitioner can determine the clinical efficiency of a system before making the investment. * Emphasizes patient selection, work-up and treatment planning with several approaches that may benefit the special needs of a patient. * Covers complications, infections and retreatment of implant surgery to show the general practitioner how to deal with treatment failures that occur in about 10 percent of cases. * Biomaterials, biomechanics, anatomy and physiology chapters explain what is occurring at cellular and functional levels to help predict success or failure. * Taking a multidisciplinary approach to implant dentistry, the roles of general dentists, oral surgeons, prosthodontists, and periodontists are discussed.

As Good As New: A Consumer's Guide to Dental Implants Until fairly recently, the millions of people each year who suffered from tooth loss had few options for ever again speaking, chewing, and smiling without self-consciousness. Many believed dental implants were nothing more than a dangerous fad, still in the early stages of experimentation.

In his informative new book, As Good As New: A Consumer's Guide to Dental Implants, Charles A. Babbush, D.D.S., M.Sc.D., has cut through the clutter of confusion surrounding the safety and reliability of dental implants. Dr. Babbush, who is one of the leading dental implant surgeons in the world, says that implants routinely restore natural function to millions of people. The personal anecdotes throughout the book affirm for anyone who is missing teeth the improvement in quality of life that implant dentistry has to offer.

In this easy-to-read, patient-friendly guide, you'll:

*Discover whether you would make a good candidate for implants and how to find the right implant doctor; *Understand what will happen below and above your gums, as well as what to do if you need more than implants; *Find out what to do if something goes wrong; *Learn how to live with your new implants.

This a must-read for anyone who is a potential candidate for implants, as well as for dentists who are interested in becoming involved in implant reconstruction.

Soft Tissue and Esthetic Considerations in Implant Dentistry This long-anticipated book presents advanced surgical techniques for preserving and restoring natural dental esthetics in implant therapy. Written for the novice and expert alike, each chapter builds on the information in the preceding chapters in a clear, well-illustrated, and easy-to-follow format. Following a discussion of the rationale and biologic basis for creating a stable peri-implant soft tissue environment, the author presents a systematic approach to the patient evaluation, including quantification of the positive and negative elements that enhance and detract from an individual s smile; specific surgical maneuvers for managing peri-implant soft tissues, including various innovative flap designs; the surgical and prosthetic protocols of a technique for preserving the natural hard and soft tissue anatomy in patients undergoing tooth removal; soft tissue grafting techniques for augmenting attached tissues around natural teeth and implant restorations; and an innovative technique for reconstructing large-volume hard and soft tissue defects in the anterior maxillary area. The final chapter presents advanced cases that demonstrate the use of these procedures in various situations, along with algorithms to guide the implant surgeon in their selection and sequencing. For those who want to master new techniques for treating esthetic implant patients with a high level of predictability, this book is a must-have.

Color Atlas of Dental Implant Surgery Color Atlas of Dental Implant Surgery serves as a surgical guide for placing dental implants to help practitioners achieve successful prosthetic rehabilitation. An abundance of clear, full-color clinical photos and practical content cover every implant challenge, with each chapter presenting a different area of the mouth or a specific surgical technique. This text addresses treatment planning, presurgical guidelines for surgical success, detailed surgical techniques, and postoperative follow-up.

• Conveniently organized by anatomy and procedure, with each chapter presenting a different area of the mouth or a specific surgical technique.
• Indications and contraindications for each procedure provide details of why a procedure is performed.
• Clear case illustrations combined with text provide an excellent guide to procedures a textbook in atlas format.
• A discussion of the result of prosthodontic treatment is provided for each case, explaining how implant placement factors into successful therapy.

• New Methods for Immediate Provisionalization chapter covers single-tooth implant restorations and multi-unit restorations.
• Adds coverage of immediate placement of implants at the time of tooth extraction.
• Discusses critical factors for esthetic central incisor implant restorations.
• Covers immediate loading of the edentulous mandible with provisional and final restorations, and discusses augmentation of the thin ridge using particulate materials, providing the patient with complete restoration of function within minutes of implant placement.
• Covers the use of distraction osteogenesis for severely atrophic anterior maxillary sites and treatment of anterior maxillary atrophy with onlay grafts for fixed prosthetics, to restore the patient with severe maxillary defects and create the soft tissue needed for bone graft and later implant placement.
• Discusses new technique for bone morphogenetic protein for sinus augmentation, so patients may have recombinant BMP placed with bone formation allowing implant placement, without the need for morbid autogenous bone harvesting or the use of allografts or xenografts.
• Covers extraction site protocols to reconstruct and preserve bone bulk in anticipation of implant placement, offering methods for grafting the extraction socket to allow for ideal implant placement at a later time.

Periodontics: Medicine, Surgery and Implants This definitive book presents the medical and surgical aspects of periodontics in full color, organized to coincide with topics in the AAP's Vision 2020 Objectives. It offers strong theory and concepts, as well as highly instructive clinical practice applications. The hallmark of this book is that it directs dental diagnosis and treatment toward controlling infection and establishing an oral environment that is conducive to the overall health and well-being of the patient. Interrelationships between oral and systemic health are emphasized throughout, and advanced technologies and techniques such as oral, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and dental implant surgery are key components.

• All goals and objectives of the American Academy of Periodontology's Vision 2020 program are addressed, highlighting the most up-to-date information on periodontal medicine.
• Content is organized to coincide with the AAP's Vision 2020 Objectives.
• Full color illustrations show the tissue colors and provide critical information about diagnosis of disease and assessment of the success or failure of clinical therapy.
• Information is provided on all forms of nonsurgical and surgical therapies, including dental implant surgery and advanced surgical techniques such as guided bone regeneration, sinus augmentation, and esthetic periodontal surgery.
• The chapters dealing with mucogingival surgery, resective surgery, and the basic principles of surgery essentially make up a color atlas of periodontal practice.
• A comprehensive chapter on conscious sedation offers excellent content as an option for patients who want to be "asleep" during involved procedures.
• Information on when and how to use antibiotics and antimicrobials adds a critical component to the interrelationship between oral and systemic health.
• No other periodontal reference includes a chapter on electronic dental health records, with highly relevant content as more and more dental practices move toward becoming "paperless" offices.
• A separate chapter on the role of the dental hygienist in periodontal procedures makes this the perfect reference for in-office education.
• Information on periodontal instrumentation provides an excellent overview of the instruments that practitioners and their support staff use every day.

Implant Restorations: A Step-by-Step Guide Implant Restorations: A Step-by-Step Guide offers clinicians a practical, step-by-step approach to treatment planning and restoring dental implants. This highly-illustrated, case-based book demonstrates how to treat the most commonly encountered treatment scenarios, describing the procedures, techniques, and sequences required in clear, concise language and in an easy-to-use format. The book takes the theory of implant restoration, using as its basis 3i’s implant systems, and places it directly in the operatory, concentrating in detail on each stage of the actual clinical procedures involved in treating different patients. It integrates implant treatment with the realities of running a successful restorative practice. Building on the work of the 1st edition, the 2nd edition of this successful text reflects the advances of implant prosthetics over the intervening years, providing all new cases, exploring new techniques and technology, and demonstrating updated system components and armamentarium.

Bone Biology, Harvesting, & Grafting For Dental Implants: Rationale and Clinical Applications Many patients who are otherwise ideal candidates for implant therapy lack sufficient alveolar bone to support dental implants. This book presents all facets of bone augmentation in preparation for implant placement, including techniques for harvesting bone from the ramus, the anterior mandible, and the tibia; the various types of bone-grafting materials and their indications; step-by-step procedures for grafting the maxillary sinus and anterior alveolar ridge and for subnasal elevation and augmentation; and guidelines for the use of adjuncts such as platelet-rich plasma to enhance healing and predictability. Practitioners of implant dentistry at all levels will learn much from this book.

Clinical and Laboratory Manual of Implant Overdentures Dr. Hamid Shafie’s Clinical and Laboratory Manual of Implant Overdentures is a ground-breaking guide to this popular and effective treatment modality, which is increasingly seen as the standard of care for the fully edentulous patient. This highly practical step-by-step handbook provides the dentist and laboratory technician with essential instruction and sound clinical support, demystifying this complex subject through systematic evaluation of the available attachment systems to produce treatment plans to best suit the patient’s needs.Shafie's Clinical and Laboratory Manual of Implant Overdentures instructs clinicians and laboratory technicians on the step-by-step utilization process of this treatment modality. Currently many countries are adopting the implant overdenture as a standard of care for fully edentulous patients. Although implant overdentures are an attractive treatment modality for fully edentulous patients, the necessary clinical and laboratory training as well as the variety of attachment systems often create confusion about which system will best suit each patient's needs. This four-color handbook presents an accessible, intuitive directory for classifying attachments. It lists clinical indications and contraindications for each attachment assembly, details surgical placement techniques complete with color photographs and schematic illustrations, and explains how to present appealing treatment plans to potential candidates, as well as advising how to manage a successful and dynamic implant practice. Featuring comprehensive coverage in a compact package, this book allows clinicians and lab technicians to find precise answers quickly. A wide variety of implant systems are featured in the book.

Osseointegration in Dentistry: An Overview Newly updated and expanded, this classic textbook remains true to its original purpose-that is, to provide basic, objective information about the principles and practice of implant dentistry for the student or practicing dentist who is new to the subject.

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