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Implantology- 7 November 2013

Controlled Split Crest and Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR) with contemporary implant placement: rationale and limits of the clinical application in esthetic areas.

Authors: Fabio Cozzolino Dario Mari Roberto Sorrentino

The authors’ experience in the medium term. Introduction According to the current scientific literature, a prosthetically-guided approach should be the first choice for implant placement, even in case of horizontal/vertical alveolar bone resorption. In the last decade, different reconstructive techniques were described with the aim of restoring bone volume. Among the available techniques, the authors widely experienced and achieved very satisfactory clinical outcomes with the “Edentulous Ridge Expansion” (E.R.E.), introduced by Dr. Bruschi and Scipioni in 1994. This technique…

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Periodontology- 3 July 2013

Minimally Invasive Surgical Technique (MIST) In Regenerative Periodontal Therapy

Authors: Pierpaolo Cortellini

Introduction In the last decade, a growing interest for more friendly, patient oriented surgery have urged clinical investigators to focus their interest in the development of less invasive approaches. Surgical procedures in medicine and in dentistry have undergone radical changes to reduce invasivity; in parallel novel instruments and materials have been developed for the inevitable evolution of the surgical armamentarium (Cortellini 2012). The field of periodontal surgery have been enriched with this peculiar and innovative approach rather recently (Harrel…

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Oral Surgery- 3 June 2013

Oral surgery in childhood and adolescence

Authors: Roberto Barone Carlo Clauser Angelo Baleani

Introduction Oral surgery in children is not always an easy surgery. It is often complicated by: – specific age-related pathologies, not always easy to recognize – complex anatomy associated with the mixed dentition – reduced surgical access – difficulties in obtaining the cooperation – the need for coordinating surgery and orthodontics There are opportunities for oral surgery typical age-related operations and other conditions that require a different approach when patients are children: – extraction of infraoccluded primary teeth –…

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Implantology- 24 April 2013

Straumann implant guided-surgery with Codiagnostix Software and immediately-loaded prosthesis

Authors: Fabio Cozzolino Roberto Sorrentino Vincenzo Mutone

COMPLETE MAXILLARY AND MANDIBULAR EDENTULISM TREATED WITH IMMEDIATELY-LOADED DENTAL IMPLANTS AND SCREWED FULL-ARCH TEMPORARY PROSTHESES INITIAL SITUATION The patient referred a clinical history of severe adult chronic periodontitis. She has been edentulous at the maxillary arch for about 3 years while the latest extractions at the mandibular arch had been made about 6 months before the clinical examination. The patient presented with good general health and oral hygiene. She wore two removable complete dentures unsatisfactory for both function and esthetics.…

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