Implant position anterior
Anterior dental implant position for esthetics
Most of the steps and rules are to ensure you can achieve a nice emergence profile. The biggest mistake that one can not come back from is placing the implant too shallow. There’s more information on our immediate dental implant page.
- 6 mm inter-radicular (5mm)
- 6 mm B-L bone (5mm)
- 6mm min length (use 8mm)
- 6mm occlusal space (5mm screw)
- 6mm contact to bone (5mm to guarantee)
- 3mm apical and 2mm lingual to planned gingival zenith
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3A 2B Rojas-Vizcaya 2013 JoPros |
PDP triad from Fu 2011 JOMI
Esthetic Risk Analysis for Anterior Implant
Surgical placement anterior implant
- 3 months late uncover and place CT graft
- 4 weeks later screw-retained provisional loaded
- 6 weeks later impression with custom impression coping
- 6 weeks later screw-retained provisional non-loaded
- 10-12 weeks final impression
Another way
- Immediate temp
- Covered in another post
Another way
- Healing cap
- Impression
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