Written by the foremost authority in the field, Dental Implants Prosthetics, 2nd Edition helps you advance your skills and understanding of implant prosthetics. Comprehensive coverage includes both simple and complicated clinical cases, with practical guidance on how to apply the latest research, diagnostic tools, treatment planning, implant designs, materials, and techniques to provide superior patient outcomes.

• Treatment supported by clinical evidence equips students with a more targeted evidence-based approach to patient procedures.

• NEW! Emphasis on treatment planning helps decrease the number of visits while providing effective, long-term results for the patient.
• NEW! Focus on the patient presentation offers the latest treatment options for bone harvesting, restoration and recovery.
• NEW! Original illustrations and photos highlight and clarify key clinical concepts and techniques.

Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION
۱. Rationale for Dental Implants
۲. Generic Root Form Components Terminology
۳. An Implant is Not a Tooth: A Comparison of Periodontal Indices

PART II: BASIC SCIENCES
۴. Biomaterials for Implant Dentistry
۵. Clinical Biomechanics in Implant Dentistry
۶. Bone Response to Mechanical Loads
۷. Diagnostic Imaging Techniques

PART III: IMPLANT TREATMENT
۸. Stress Treatment Theorem for Implant Dentistry
۹. Prosthetic Options in Implant Dentistry
۱۰. Force Factors Related to Patient Conditions
۱۱. Implant Site Bone Density: A Key Determinant for Treatment Planning
۱۲. Key Implant Positions and Number for Fixed Implant Prosthesis: A Biomechanical Rationale
۱۳. Dental Implant Body Size: A Biomechanical and Esthetic Rationale
۱۴. Available Bone and Dental Implant Treatment Plans
۱۵. Scientific Rationale for Dental Implant Design
۱۶. Preimplant Prosthodontics: Overall Evaluation, Specific Criteria, and Pretreatment Prostheses
۱۷. Natural Teeth Adjacent to an Implant Site: Joining Implants to Teeth
۱۸. Diagnostic Casts and Surgical Templates
۱۹. Treatment Plans for Partially Edentulous Arches In Implant Dentistry

PART IV: SPECIAL TREATMENT OPTIONS
۲۰. Posterior Single-Tooth Replacement: Treatment Options and Indications
۲۱. Maxillary Posterior Edentulism: Treatment Options
۲۲. The Edentulous Mandible: An Organized Approach to Implant-Supported Overdentures
۲۳. The Completely Edentulous Mandible: Treatment Plans for Fixed Restorations
۲۴. Maxillary Complete Edentulism: Treatment Options for Full Arch Fixed Prostheses and Overdentures

PART V: PROSTHETIC ASPECTS OF IMPLANT DENTISTRY
۲۵. Principles of Cement Retained Fixed Prosthodontics: Natural Teeth and Implant Abutments
۲۶. Digital Technology and Implant Dentistry
۲۷. Principles of Screw-Retained Prostheses
۲۸. Single Tooth Replacement – Anterior and Posterior Prosthesis Design and Fabrication
۲۹. Implant Overdentures Design and Fabrication
۳۰. Maxillary Arch Fixed Implant Prosthesis: Design and Fabrication
۳۱. Occlusal Considerations for Implant Supported Prostheses – Implant Protective Occlusion
۳۲. Prosthetic Progressive Bone Loading
۳۳. A Maxillary Denture with Modified Occlusal Concepts Opposing an Implant Prosthesis

PART VI: MAINTENANCE
۳۴. Maintenance of Dental Implants: Implant Quality of Health Scale