Dental News Articles

By Dr.  George Freedman Dentistry has been evolving rapidly in recent decades. It can often be a challenge to dental professionals to keep up will all the developments that are occurring simultaneously. It is important for the practitioner to identify important trends within the profession such that they can maximize their time spent in learning and their money spent on upgrading.   Major trends in clinical dental materials Development in dental materials tends to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. In order to identify important current and future trends, the easiest technique is to examine recent directions of research and commercialization, and to extrapolate them into the coming years. For example, amalgam restorations, popular for more than a century, have been largely replaced by tooth-colored materials in the span of 20 years. Dental professionals seeking to improve patient treatment are searching for restoratives that ca...

Dental News Volume XX, Number IV, December, 2013 by Dr.  Badry Meouchy, Dr. Fady Abillamaa, Dr. Elie Azar Maalouf, Dr. Fatmé Mouchref Hamasny, Dr. Ramzi Abou Arraj   Abstract Background: An 18 year old female patient presented for implant placement at the site of a congenitally missing right maxillary central incisor. The clinical examination revealed an insufficient bucco-lingual width of the edentulous ridge, requiring a horizontal bone augmentation procedure prior to implant placement. Methods: An autogenous bone block graft was harvested from mandibular symphysis, fixed on buccal aspect of edentulous crest with titanium miniscrews, covered first by autogenous bone chips and xenograft particles, and second with a resorbable barrier membrane. Four months later, an Astra Tech® implant was placed in the grafted site, surrounded by a thick buccal bony wall, demonstrating excellent primary stability and guaranteeing a better esthetic outcome. Im...