Implantology have Forever Changed Dentistry
Journal Title: Dentistry – Open Journal - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Implantology have forever changed dentistry as we know it and its rapid leaps and bounds are trying to keep up with many of the patient’s wants and needs as well as with all the clinician’s skill sets. It used to be implants had to be long, engaging the zygomatic bone in places where bone was low on the maxilla, and dentistry evolved to move and lift the sinus. We used to have to move nerves on the mandible, but now we have mini implants for patients who would not be great candidates for such major surgical procedures. We used to have no options when a tooth would fracture and had to bring the depressing diagnoses to our patients with a sad look and offer last ditch efforts in things like root hemisections to help retrieve some semblance of occlusal function for people that desperately wanted to avoid dentures. Dentures are still the basis on which I scare my younger patients to brush and floss and to avoid the lifestyle of their grandparents, but implants have even become a life saver for those patients in dentures as well who used to suffer through their meal, eating more fixodent then food. Speaking about the good old days of enjoying a simple meal.
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Daniel Kazachkov
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