On Wednesday night next week (2nd November) I have the privilege of presenting a webinar for the Denplan November webinar series in aid of mouth cancer action month.
I’ve been asked to do a short presentation on aesthetic implant surgery which is an area I talk about quite a lot.
I’m going to start the presentation with an extraordinary immediate anterior implant placement and reconstruction case that I’ve carried out with my friend and clinical partner here, Andy Legg.
Almost all of the skill involved in this case must be given to Andy for the amazing reconstruction that he carried out for the patient but there is no little amount of difficulty involved in placing two upper central incisors immediately and placing restorations on them in the same day.
Most of the skills in that is in the assessment not the execution (although it’s pretty difficult to get the implants in right place).
This type of case goes entirely against what people think I am or who I am because a lot of people imagine that I’m a one trick pony who only does type 2 implant placements (take the tooth out, let it heal, put it in 6-8 weeks later).
In fact, what I’ll be advocating during that talk is that everybody does type 2 implant placements unless they are absolutely and completely comfortable with the fact that they’ve done enough anterior implant dentistry to know when and when not to do the case that I start with.
Regardless of what everybody says (particularly the companies that make up names for these things – immediacy) we’re still living in a world where a very small percentage of people are actually suitable for immediate anterior implant reconstruction.
We’re also still living in a world where there is no long-term evidence to suggest that the aesthetic results of these cases are as stable as a type 2 placement and while no execution of these procedures is perfect by any stretch, type 2 is the most predictable for the largest number of dentists and the largest number of patients.
When we are given the opportunity and the privilege to share knowledge and experience and gained information with other groups, we must never use that as a showboating exercise because the people who are on the other end of that are the patients.
If you’re interested in actually improving the long-term outcomes of your anterior aesthetic implant stuff in a predictable way that works, the majority of the time and gives you an assessment framework that lets you choose whether to do it or not then maybe the webinar in collaboration with Denplan and mouth cancer action month might be the one for you.
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