Ridge Preservation and Immediate Implantation

This impressive evidence-based textbook covers all aspects of immediate implant placement and immediate loading with the aim of helping practitioners attain an advanced level of clinical practice in implant dentistry. Chapters present the fundamentals of implant placement techniques, socket preservation, augmentation concepts, peri-implant soft tissue management, and immediate loading protocols, which constitute the basis for predictable, functional, and esthetic outcomes. This book provides additional insight into many topics of growing interest, including preoperative orthodontic therapy, dental trauma and dental implants, stress and anxiety in immediate implant placement, smoking and immediate loading, and management of complications. A final chapter on complex and unusual cases showcases the author's surgical skills and underscores her mastery of all the presented concepts. It is a book to be read and reread by the serious practitioner of implant dentistry.

Contents
Section I.
Chapter 01. Dental implants or traditional treatments: A contemporary dilemma
Chapter 02. Teeth in one day
Chapter 03. The importance of histological analysis in the evaluation of immediate implants

Section II.
Chapter 04. Immediate implant placement: Surgical technique—Steps and procedures
Chapter 05. Flapless surgery and immediate dental implantation: A procedure without incisions
Chapter 06. Immediate implant placement: The gap, socket preservation, and soft tissue augmentation

Section III.
Chapter 07. Esthetic predictability and peri-implant soft tissue management
Chapter 08. Tissue management and prosthetic considerations with immediate implantation in the anterior maxilla
Chapter 09. Preoperative orthodontic treatment modalities for soft and hard tissue modification prior to implantation

Section IV.
Chapter 10. Immediate implantation and loading in the esthetic zone
Chapter 11. Immediate implantation in molars
Chapter 12. Immediate implantation for full-arch rehabilitation
Chapter 13. Dental trauma and dental implants: The meeting point

Section V.
Chapter 14. Psychological and quality of life aspects of immediate implantation
Chapter 15. Stress and anxiety in immediate implant insertion: The effect on cognition, pain, and wound healing

Section VI.
Chapter 16. Smoking and immediate implantation
Chapter 17. Complications in immediate implantations
Chapter 18. Complex and unusual cases

Contributors
R. R. M. de Barros • W. Becker • N. Bichacho • E. van Dooren • I. Eli • M. Fradeani • R. Fürhauser • M. Goldstein • R. Haas • G. Iezzi • G. Mailàth-Pokorny • A. B. Novaes Jr • R. R. de Oliveira • G. Pecora • V. Perrotti • A. Piattelli • A. E. Pontes • R. Romano • A. P. Saadoun • G. Talmor • G. Watzek