title: A technique for immediate occlusal implant loading of a completely edentulous mandible: a clinical report.
abstract: The protocols described are designed for immediate implant loading of the completely edentulous mandible and to provide the patient with a prosthesis that incorporates structural durability and esthetics in a time efficient manner. Incorporating appropriate diagnostic and surgical procedures, this clinical report describes the use of custom-fabricated transparent devices that help the clinician identify implant position, thereby reducing the procedural time and improving the structural durability and esthetics of the immediate prosthesis.
authors.affiliation: Graduate and Postgraduate Prosthodontics, Department of Prosthodontics and Operative Dentistry, Tufts University, and Visiting Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, University of Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paniz
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chierico
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tomasi
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cuel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported; D003819:Denture Bases; D003779:Denture Design; D003825:Denture, Complete, Immediate; D003826:Denture, Complete, Lower; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D057893:Immediate Dental Implant Loading / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D007574:Jaw Relation Record; D007575:Jaw, Edentulous / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008334:Mandible / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016348:Osseointegration / Q000502:physiology; D010347:Patient Care Planning