Soft tissue conditioning by immediate restoration of immediately placed implants in full-arch rehabilitation: the double provisional technique.
The safety and effectiveness of full-arch implant-supported fixed partial dentures have been established. Thus, clinicians are now focusing on the treatment modalities that can reduce patient discomfort, treatment time, and cost, and that could enhance the esthetic outcome of the restorations. Full-arch implant-supported rehabilitations are used when the patient is edentulous or if the residual dentition has a poor prognosis. In order to improve patients' comfort and avoid the use of a removable prosthesis, some protocols for immediate replacement of hopeless dentitions have been proposed, but there are no data on their outcomes regarding the soft tissues. The aim of this article is to describe the double provisional technique and to show evidence of its efficacy in easily achieving predictable esthetic results when immediately restoring a hopeless dentition with a fixed implant-supported restoration.
Cordaro
Luca
L
Department of Periodontics and Implant Dentistry, Eastman Dental Hospital, via Guido D'Arezzo 2, 00198 Rome, Italy. lucacordaro@usa.net
Torsello
Ferruccio
F
D016301:Alveolar Bone Loss / Q000517:prevention & control; D015519:Bone Density / Q000502:physiology; D000044:Dental Abutments; D003724:Dental Arch / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D015921:Dental Implants; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported; D003779:Denture Design; D003830:Denture, Partial, Fixed; D003831:Denture, Partial, Immediate; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D006801:Humans; D007575:Jaw, Edentulous / Q000473:pathology / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016348:Osseointegration / Q000502:physiology; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D018579:Patient Selection; D012449:Safety; D014016:Tissue Conditioning, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D015921:Dental Implants