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Meeting patients where they are at. I’m not talking about location, I’m talking about needs and ability. Its great to give patients the best option for treatment, but lets face it, many patients may not be ready financially for the type of treatment they WANT. I feel that its important to provide patients with upgradable options that will…Read More
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Not every patient CAN afford a fixed implant solutione, although many WANT one. In fact, it seems to me that MOST denture patients WANT a fixed solution. “Upgradable dentistry” is a concept I learned from Dr Nazarian at an OCO Implant course years ago.
This patient was in her early 30’s and had rampant perio disease necessitating the removal…Read More
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Pulling some guides of the printer this morning. Dragged my son to the office this weekend and he printed some Pokemon!
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Hey Doctors check out our new OCO-LOK overdenture kit. It is a tremendous savings as well as a very efficient way to correct an unstable denture. Also I will be posting our new live Duke City Mini-residency course. Stay tuned!
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Gotta love overdentures. Talk about a life changing treatment!
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Gotta love overdentures. Talk about a life changing treatment!
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I just finished this surgery. 5X8 Engage. I could have gone with a 5X10 however I like to keep 3 mm between the tip of my drill and the IAN. With the 5X8 Engage I was 3.8 mm, If I had gone with the 5X10 I would have been closer than is my preference. Everything went great with the surgery. Very smooth. Very efficient bread and butter implant…Read More
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Dr. It appears that the implant body could have been placed a little lower to take a little more advantage of platform switching. Other than that it is nicely placed
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A great in-depth e-book on the use of ISQ and immediate loading
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Great teaching videos for flapless surgery!!
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This video shows the osteotomy being made after the following steps:
1) Pilot guide used
2) Tissue punch -
In that first video I showed the use of the pilot guide. Here is the video I made of the next step in implant placement, the tissue punch. Keep in mind we are just trying to figure out the video thing so its not the best, but we’ll get there!
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In that first video I showed the use of the pilot guide. Here is the video I made of the next step in implant placement, the tissue punch. Keep in mind we are just trying to figure out the video thing so its not the best, but we’ll get there!
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I’ve been trying to find an easy, inexpensive way to record procedures. Here is a video of using a pilot guide. Its shot with an iphone with a ring light. Its a work in progress but I thought I’d share it. Anyone have a method they like for recording?
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This was very dense bone for the posterior mandible. I was surprised at how difficult it was to get the pilot drill through it!
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OH NO! This patient came in today with a #13 broken off at the gumline and a visable vertical fracture.
Replacing the tooth as soon as possible is a priority for her so we discussed the +’s and -‘S of same day implants. She decided that she wanted the tooth extracted and an implant placed today, and that is exactly what we did.
I’ll measure the…Read More-
Hi Doctor,
Very nice placement of the implant after extraction. This is definitely a practice builder and saves the patient time and multiple visits. We are also recommending immediate load of the implant body if certain baseline values are achieved, e.g. 50+ final torquing and an ISQ value of 65+. These are safety measures that have been used…Read More-
Thanks Dr Jim. I suspect that it would have been fine to immediate load. I have to admit that it always makes me a little nervous to do immediate loading. When we do, I always document that I explain to the patient that if we “Put a tooth on right away” there may be complications and may have to start over. It makes me feel a little less tense…Read More
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Yes it is safer to second stage it if you do not evaluate the implant with an ISQ measurement. Also, bone level implants are for the most part designed for staging because final bone stabilty and integration takes 3-6 months. Nevertheless you did a great service for this patient. Socket grafting would have added an additional 4 months!
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my birthday was on March 2nd. we had a great time with it at work, and its also presents a great opportunity to boost your social media influence. what do you all do to boost your social media presence?
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Dr D’alise I saw the OCO LoK kits. I was planning on using locators for this case. Are those O-LoKs comparable to locators? Does it use the same triangular shape driver?