Features:

• Provides objective appraisal of various implant systems so practitioner can determine the clinical efficiency of a system before making the investment.
• Emphasizes patient selection, work-up and treatment planning with several approaches that may benefit the special needs of a patient.
• Covers complications, infections and retreatment of implant surgery to show the general practitioner how to deal with treatment failures that occur in about 10 percent of cases.
• Biomaterials, biomechanics, anatomy and physiology chapters explain what is occurring at cellular and functional levels to help predict success or failure.
• Taking a multidisciplinary approach to implant dentistry, the roles of general dentists, oral surgeons, prosthodontists, and periodontists are discussed.

Misch, Carl E., DDS, MDS (Univ of Pittsburgh)

Tags: contemporary implant dentistry