2018 Dental Implant Conference

G04 — Soft-tissue Substitutes, Indications, Advantages and Disadvantages

Speaker(s)

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  Edward Allen, DDS, PhD

  Director
  Center for Advanced Dental Education
  Dallas, Texas

This session will cover what has been learned and what is done to avoid complications providing optimal care to patients, applying surgical science principles and time-honored methods. Speakers will provide three pearls of knowledge they have learned from experience that are necessary to avoid issues.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the evidence base for using different materials for altering the soft-tissue quality and quantity around implant restorations.
• Recognize that technology advances can be used for improved accuracy and precision for placing implants, with the final restoration in mind.
• Review the methods to fabricate immediate provisional restorations using digital planning.
• Identify new methods using tooth replicas to fabricate patient-specific implants.