Implants
Mastering Impression Coping Dental Implant Techniques 2026
Seating a final implant crown should feel like a calm checkpoint, not a gamble. When the restoration drops in passively, the margin looks clean, the screw channel behaves, and everyone in the room relaxes. When it doesn’t, the whole case can turn into chairside grinding, a remake, or a hard conversation about why a seemingly…
Cemented Implant Crown: Key Clinical Insights
You’re halfway through delivery, and the case looks routine until it isn’t. The impression is back, the abutment is seated on the model, and the choice in front of the team is no longer cosmetic. It’s whether the final restoration should be cemented, screw-retained, or handled with a hybrid approach that protects esthetics without trapping…
Dental Surgical Guides: A 2026 Guide
A clinician opens a CBCT, lines it up with an intraoral scan, and sees the implant plan before the patient even sits back. The next move is physical, not digital. A small printed template lands on the tray, seats on the tissue or teeth, and turns a virtual path into a real drill path. That…
Implant Provisional Restoration: A Practical Workflow Guide
The hardest implant provisional cases rarely fail in the obvious way. They fail when the provisional looked acceptable at delivery, then the papilla flattened, the buccal contour drifted, or the patient came back asking why the “temporary” tooth had already become the one that defined the smile line. In anterior dentistry, that provisional often sets…