Socket Shield ruined men. Few understand this.
Now I got you reading the article, and you are wondering why I’m dropping such…
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Mastering Dental Photography: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction to dental photographyDigital Dental photography is an essential aspect of modern dentistry, with numerous…
Socket Shield ruined men. Few understand this.
Now I got you reading the article, and you are wondering why I’m dropping such…
Clinical Advantages of the Platelet Rich Fibrin in Dentistry
It is often rightly said “Nature is the Best Teacher”. The best treatment modalities in…
How to do a Webinar About Dentistry That Your Audience Will Love
We have reached a point that if we invite a friend to a webinar about…
How to Solve the Most Common Bone Defects With Guided Bone Regeneration
Trying to perform implant dentistry without understanding bone dynamics, guided bone regeneration basic techniques, and…
Complications in Dental Implant Dentistry: Buccal Soft Tissue Dehiscences
One of the most dramatic situations in our daily practice is to have patients that…
Root Coverage Procedures, My First Time! 8 Golden Rules on Esthetic Plastic Periodontal Surgery.
When we dive into the world of periodontal plastic surgery, it is unavoidable to avoid…
The Story Behind Platform Switching
Like most good things in life are accidental, Platform Switching, too, was discovered accidentally.During the…
Are all the implant surfaces the same? a review of the different surfaces.
Every day, we are bombarded by thousands of ads in the form of banners, links, and…
Low Budget Overhead Video Guide: Recording Dental Procedures Effectively
Creating high-quality overhead videos of dental procedures can be challenging, especially when on a tight…
4 Techniques to Perform an Effective Ridge Preservation and Soft Tissue Management
I started to get interested, in detail, about Alveolar Ridge Preservation and Soft Tissue Management about 7 years ago when I was asked to write a chapter in the 3rd edition of “Periodontal and peri-implant plastic surgery” by Dr. Alain Borghetti and Pr Virginie Monnet-Corti.…
Zero bone loss concepts by prof. Tomas Linkevičius. A path to crestal bone stability
Crestal bone stability around dental implants remains one of the most important and wanted features…
10 Frequent Mistakes in Dental Practice Management and How to Avoid Them
Excellence encompasses much more than what we do within the oral cavity. Clinical practice is…
How To Use Social Networks To Boost Your Dental Clinic After Covid-19 Crisis. 11 Simple Recommendations.
It is estimated that the global dental market will reach 37 billion dollars in 2021.…
Vertical and Horizontal Bone Augmentation- How to solve complex implant cases with predictable techniques
Bone atrophies are one of the most challenging situations in modern implantology, and they affect…
6 Tools to Boost Your Online Dental Marketing
How to start with a solid digital marketing strategy with this simple tools.
The Ideal Implant Position in the Aesthetic Zone.
Jim Collins, the author of the book Good to Great, once said,“The main point is to first get the…
How to create Animations and Illustrations to Improve your Presentations.
Many times, after giving a class or a talk, in a course or in a…
12 facts about the Bundle Bone, the Gap and Immediate Implants.
It was while ago when the first article about the Bundle Bone, the Gap, and…
How Dentists value immediate returns and their relationship to the human brain and digital dentistry
There is no doubt that Digital Dentistry is here to stay. It’s not a fad…
Alveolar Ridge Preservation: How to Perform Socket Preservation Techniques
Talking about alveolar ridge preservation (or socket preservation) always reminded me of a story about…
How Deep Is Your Implant? Supracrestal, Crestal, and Subcrestal Implant Position Revisited.
In the 19th century, an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto found an exciting discovery while…
Two ways to Restore Edentulous Spaces in the Aesthetic Zone
On the 14th August of 1385, a battle was fought between the Kingdom of Portugal…
Immediate implant placement in molar extractions sockets using a definitive abutment.
Introduction to Immediate Implant in MolarsImmediate implant placement into a fresh extraction sockets has become…
Stranger Implants: The Top 10 Stranger Implant Cases Seen on Social Media.
Introduction to Stranger ImplantsLately, there is a lot of buzz around Stranger Things tv show. For…
Socket Shield Technique. Report of a case.
Dimensional changes of the alveolar ridge following tooth extraction continue to burden restorative implant treatment.…
5 Important Scientific Publications About Implant Dentistry
Myths have been present since human civilization was described for the first time, and implant…
3 Suturing Techniques For Guided Bone Regeneration That You Can Start Using Tomorrow
Did you ever attend a class about sutures? I´m sure you did, and I´m sure…
How to perform a predictable immediate loading
IntroductionOnce again, before I start writing this post, I did a poll on Twitter about…
Immediate Implants in the Aesthetic zone: Some tips and tricks that will help you
When I’m in the middle of a discussion about the topic of immediate implants, I…
Soft Tissue Recession Around Implants – A common Complication
Today one of the first considerations for implant therapy is to achieve aesthetics results that are in harmony with the surrounding tissues. One of the major concerns is soft tissue recession around implants thay may appear over time (Adell et al. 1981; Grunder 2000) and this is an important issue not only for the patient but also for the clinician.
4 Implant Dentistry Books You Should Start Reading Today
Recommending books is easy, buying them is slightly more difficult (some of them are expensive), but reading an entire book is a tough work and sometimes it can be boring depending on the topic.
How to learn Periodontal Surgery with an App
I´m sure you have heard about that there is an app for even the most obscure need or interest. You can find an app that simulates you are drinking a cold beer, a app that makes a prank calls to your friends on your behalf with several sort of jokes. They are funny but just that: funny.
Photography Equipment for a Dentist
My camera is a Nikon 610. Full frame and it is also the camera that I used to do the video that was in the page about Dental Photography.
3 Simple Steps to keep all your Photos Avalaible and Shareable in a Dental Practice
Despite existing tons of image / photo softwares out there, sometimes it can be a little confusing which one to choose.
How to Create an Illustration
After receiving some emails from some followers, I decided to create this tutorial to introduce how I create my illustrations.
What is Papers 3 and how it works
Papers is an Appel Design Award and Ars Desig Award winning solution for managing research literatura. Now, it´s time for Papers 3 to take your personal library of research to a whole new level.
How much time I have to wait after an alveolar ridge preservation
We all know that unavoidable ridge resorption occurs after an extraction (I´m not going to mention the bibliography because I´m sure you all know those articles from Amler to Araujo & Lindhe), and among all the therapeutic options we have after an extraction, the most reliable approach in an aesthetic demanding case is preserving the alveolar crest as much as possible, and then place the implant.
Platform Switching. A Biological Concept
There some questions about what is or what is nor platform switching, and of course, what are the advantages of having a platform switched concept in the implants used in our daily practice.
10 Tips that Everyone Should Know Before Performing an Implant Treatment in the aesthetic zone
Nowadays, implantology is a predictable area and well-accepted by scientific community for missing or doubtful prognosis tooth reposition. More than 30 years ago, Brånemark and col. published the first articles that presented implantology as a safe and predictable method to rehabilitate edentulous patients if a standard protocol is performed, in which one of the key factors were the time the implant was submerged until loading (3 months for the jaw and 6 months to the maxilla)(Bränemark 1977).
Bio-Oss® Collagen in the Buccal Gap after an Inmediate Implant
In this article, Araujo & Lindhe conclude that “the placement of Bio-Oss Collagen in the void between the implant and the buccal-approximal bone walls of fresh extraction sockets modified the process of hard tissue healing, provided additional amounts of hard tissue at the entrance of the previous socket and improved the level of marginal bone-to-implant contact.
5 Concepts to Achieve a Successful Immediate Implant Placement Into a Fresh Molar
The fact that you’re spending your precious time reading these lines right now is mind-blowing. Seriously. And as an act of appreciation we are not going to waste your time, so let’s get started.
4 connective tissue harvesting techniques that may help you in your daily practice
A few weeks ago while I was at my office in Barcelona performing an implant surgery with a connective tissue graft, I was thinking about how much I used to enjoy these kind of surgeries and how they stopped being so enjoyable the minute they became routine.