Controversial Issues in Implant Dentistry

Dental implantology has seen a dramatic shift in the last decade for a variety of reasons including the incorporation of 3D tools for diagnosis and treatment planning, new implant surfaces and designs, bioactive materials, tissue engineering techniques, and minimally invasive surgical procedures. The combined effect of these innovations is a new paradigm of implant dentistry that is already changing the way clinicians treat edentulous patients and improving treatment options. Despite these advances within implantology, questions remain about many new techniques and developing technologies. This book focuses on the dynamic parts of this new paradigm that are still evolving—the controversial topics that are still subject to debate and that directly affect daily clinical practice. The author asks pressing questions and provides sound assessments.

Contents
Chapter 01. What Is the Best Possible Implant When It Comes to Design and Surface?
Chapter 02. Short Implants . . . Short Life?
Chapter 03. Is Socket Preservation Possible?
Chapter 04. Immediate Implants: Are they Safe?
Chapter 05. Can I Rely on Software-Guided Surgery?
Chapter 06. Should We Really Care About Peri-Implantitis?
Chapter 07. Limitations of Guided Bone Regeneration
Chapter 08. Biomaterials: Which to Use and When?
Chapter 09. Atrophic Maxilla: To Use What Is Available or Reconstruct?
Chapter 10. Is There a Way to Successfully Manage the Posterior Atrophic Mandible?
Chapter 11. Tissue Engineering: How Long Before Reality?

Contributors
F. Hernández Alfaro • F. Alfaro • P. Altuna • E. Ferres Amat • M. Al Atari • J. Bertos • S. Mareque Bueno • J. Mareque Bueno • P. Chatakun • I. Cuesta • E. Salvan Garcia • S. García González • H. Campos Leitão • J. M. Lluch • V. Ruiz Magaz • P. Anguis Martín • R. Guijarro Martínez • J. Ortega Martinez • A. Mañes Medina • J. Nart • N. Oliveira • V. Sanchez D'Onofrio • E. Ferres Padró • T. Perez Pascual • M. Quevedo Pou • M. Sancho Puchades • O. Ortiz Puigpelat • A. Pascual La Rocca • A. Rodríguez • A. Sicilia • E. Solans