Complex Dental Implant Complications
This book offers up-to-date guidance in the diagnosis and management of the various complex complications that may be encountered during or after the placement of dental implants. The aim is to raise the awareness of clinicians regarding such complication
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Complex Dental Implant Complications
Shahrokh C. Bagheri Husain Ali Khan • Mark R. Stevens Editors
Complex Dental Implant Complications
Editors Shahrokh C. Bagheri Georgia Oral and Facial Reconstructive Surgery Atlanta GA USA
Husain Ali Khan Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Aesthetics International USA Atlanta GA USA
Mark R. Stevens Dental College of Georgia Augusta University Augusta GA USA
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Foreword
Atul Gawande wrote a book, one of many: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Why are books like this necessary? What creates a need to describe our foils in surgery? In 1965 Per-Ingvar Branemark placed the first titanium implant in his patient Gosta Larrson at the University of Gothenburg. The purpose of this single surgical procedure was to treat complete mandibular edentulism in a debilitated patient. This single surgical procedure changed reconstructive medicine and dentistry forever. For the first time a metal cylinder could be used for the reconstruction of the missing dental units or teeth in a predictable outcome. Professor Branemark discovered the uniqueness of titanium as an elemental material that could be accepted by the human body and not elicit an immune response creating a new environment for the replacement of teeth and mechanical body parts. He described it as Osseointegration. This single discovery essentially changed the way dentistry and to some degree medicine would be practiced forever. Originally, the training needed for the surgical and the prosthetic rehabilitation
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