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Dentistry and Craniofacial Research
ISSN: 2576-392X
September 10-11, 2018
Zurich, Switzerland
Dental Treatment 2018
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his retrospective study aimed to analyse the fate of the
buccal crest after immediate implant placement (IIP) through
the use of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). In 16
consecutive patients, an implant was placed in a more palatal
position after extraction, thereby creating a gap of at least 2 mm
between the implant and the buccal crest. Subsequently, this
gap was filled with a bone substitute. Preoperatively, immediate
postoperatively, and late postoperatively, a CBCT was made to
measure the thickness of the buccal crest. After application
of the bone substitute, the buccal crest increased in thickness
from 0.9 mm to 2.4 mm (mean). At a mean of 103 weeks after
IIP, late postoperative CBCT scans showed that the thickness of
the buccal crest was compacted to 1.8 mm. In the same period,
the height of the buccal crest increased by 1.6 mm (mean) to,
on average, 1.2 mm above the implant shoulder. The aesthetic
outcome was analysed using the White and Pink Esthetic Score
(WES and PES). Both scored high: 8.4 and 11.8, respectively.
Within the limitations of this study, the results of this IIP protocol
are promising.
Biography
Tristan Staas graduated from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in
1988. Together with his wife who is also a dentist, they founded Staas and
Bergmans Zorgvooruwmond in 1990, a praxis for general dentistry, and clinic
for aesthetic dentistry and implantology in ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. In
2012 they founded a second office, Staas and Bergmans Expertisevooruw-
mond, a partnership clinic consisting of various dental specialists working as
a team treating patients needing complex therapy. He has focused his prac-
tice and teaching interests on immediate implant placement in the aesthetic
zone and collaborates with other clinicians working together in their practices
in the Netherlands. He provides instruction to colleagues on immediate re-
placements, aesthetic solutions and the use of 3D technics, and is performing
research on these procedures and long-term outcomes.
t.staas@gmail.comImmediate implant placement: the fate of the
buccal crest - a retrospective cone beam
computed tomography study
Tristan Staas
Founder, Stass & Bergmans, Netherlands
Tristan Staas, J Dent Craniofac Res 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2576-392X-C3-007