The authors of this book have set out to produce a clear, impartial, and rational text that addresses new concepts and techniques in the daily practice of periodontics and implant dentistry. With a periodontist driven and multidisciplinary approach, the presented modalities promote a synergistic integration of esthetic principals with functional outcomes to achieve long-term predictable results. Treatments (and their limitations) are presented in detail, including many controversial techniques and clinical issues not previously described in the literature. Taken as a whole, this book provides a comprehensive approach to implant therapeutics that allows readers to determine for themselves how to best develop sound clinical treatments to withstand paradigm shifts in clinic-oriented science.

3,063 illustrations.

Contents:

1. Esthetic and functional planning: clinical and digital resources
2. Gingival contour in the esthetic zone: treatment for short clinical crowns
3. Root coverage in esthetic regions: treatment of long clinical crown
4. Treatment planning in implant dentistry: the search for predictable result
5. Socket preservation: how to maintain tissue architecture
6. Implant placement in fresh sockets: how to get an ideal position
7. Immediate provisional on teeth or implants: determining chronology and restoration contouring
8. Immediate rehabilitation of intact and compromised sockets: a predictable protocol
9. Treatment of esthetic complications around implants: the decision between keeping or removing an implant
10. Long-term follow-up of implants: what should be expected
11. Avoiding esthetic and functional defects on implants: how to condition the transition zone

Contributors: Susana d’Avila • Matheus C. Bandéca • Luis M. Calderero • Gabriela C. de Castro • Hindra Colodetti • Deise Lima Cunha • Ulisses Dayube • Eduardo Fernandez • Rubens M. de Freitas • Luiz Guilherme Freitas de Paula • Ronald E. Jung • Camila Lorenzetti • Guilherme J. P. Lopes de Oliveira • Ana Carolina M. Marcantonio • Camila C. Marcantonio • Marco Masioli • Rodrigo Nahas • Judith M. P. Ottoni • Cristiano H. Pascoal • Adriano Piattelli • Giuseppe A. Romito • Vítor M. Sapata • Daniel S. Thoma • Mateus R. Tonetto • Bianca Vimercati.