Learning objectives:
- Be able to conduct a structured patient assessment to gather details of the patient’s medical and dental history.
- Recognize the absolute and relative general and medical contraindications for implant treatment.
- Conduct a thorough extraoral and intraoral clinical examination, and look for site-specific factors which are relevant for implant treatment planning.
- Be aware of success and survival rates of different treatment options to be able to discuss
1. Patient history
- Absolute contraindications for implant placement
- Relative general and medical contraindications
- Smoking as a risk factor for implant therapy
- Periodontitis as a risk factor for implant therapy
- Combined risk factors
- Checklist for patient history
2. Examination
- Clinical examination
- Radiographic examination
- Additional investigations
- Summary of considerations in the patient history
and initial examination - Checklist for examination
3. Provisional diagnosis and tentative treatment plan
- Treatment options for the single tooth gap in the posterior region
- Risks and benefits of implant treatment
- Checklist for diagnosis and treatment plan
Videos:
- Assessing the fit of the surgical drill template
- Closed-tray impression-taking with Standard Plus (RN) Implants
- Final closure of the screw access holes for a screw-retained bridge
- Final insertion of a cement-retained prosthesis on Straumannr Cementable Abutments
- Implant surgery with Bone Level Tapered (BLT) Implants
- Implant surgery with the Standard Plus (SP) Implant
- Intraoral Clinical Examination
- Maintenance visit
- Open-tray impression-taking with Bone Level Tapered (RC) Implants
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and sterile gowning
- Post-operative Review & Suture Removal
- Radiographic examination using Straumannr X-ray Reference Spheres
- Review visit – 2 weeks after the insertion of the final prosthesis
- Study model analysis
- Transmucosal wound closure – BLT
- Transmucosal wound closure – SP
- Treatment Planning with the Straumannr X-ray Template
- Try-in of a cement-retained framework using Straumannr Cementable Abutments
- Try-in of a screw-retained framework using the Straumannr Variobaser for BridgeBar2
