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Learn how AI in dentistry uses linear regression to predict dental implant success, bone loss & ISQ values. Interactive ML explainer for dental professionals.
Francisco Teixeira Barbosa
Jan 22, 2026

A clinician's honest guide to understanding osseointegration—from Brånemark's accidental discovery to what the evidence actually shows about bone-to-implant contact, stability measurements, and loading protocols. Includes clinical confessions and hard-earned lessons.
Francisco
Jan 17, 2026

Master the 2018 AAP/EFP periodontal classification system with this comprehensive guide to staging (I-IV) and grading (A-B-C). Learn practical perio charting tips, calculation methods, and how to apply this framework in daily clinical practice.
Francisco
Jan 6, 2026

A comprehensive evidence-based guide to immediate implant placement incorporating the latest 2024-2025 systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Learn when to place implants immediately, early, or delayed based on current research.
Francisco
Jan 4, 2026

How to Build a Dental Portfolio That Actually Opens Doors: A Guide from Someone Who Reviews Them In machine learning, we talk about "features" — the variables...
Francisco
Jan 3, 2026
![Bundle Bone: The Complete Guide to Gap Management & Immediate Implants [2025 Update]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fajueupqlrodkhfgkegnx.supabase.co%2Fstorage%2Fv1%2Fobject%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fposts%2Fbundle-bone-the-complete-guide-to-gap-management-immediate-implants%2Fregenerated-1768916026108.jpeg&w=2048&q=75)
It was 2004 when Chen and colleagues published their landmark study on immediate implant placement. A year later, Araújo and Lindhe would shake the implant world with findings that...
Francisco
Jan 3, 2025

The other day, I watched my kids trying to build the perfect snowman in our backyard. Every time they piled the snow higher, the base would give way, and their frosty friend would...
Francisco
Nov 26, 2024

Now I got you reading the article, and you are wondering why I'm dropping such a strong statement without even mention a scientific reference. We should start remembering tha...
Francisco
Oct 31, 2024

Creating a stylish and functional home office has become increasingly important as more people continue to work from home. In this comprehensive guide to modern space use, we'll ex...
Francisco
Apr 6, 2023

Introduction to dental photography Digital Dental photography is an essential aspect of modern dentistry, with numerous applications in documentation, treatment planning, patient c...
Daniel Robles
Apr 5, 2023

Electric toothbrushes: They are here to stay. The electric toothbrush market is experiencing significant growth, and as more people embrace their advantages over traditional toothb...
Francisco
Mar 30, 2023

How Tongue Scrapers Can Help You Crush It on Tinder Did you know that nearly 30% of the global population suffers from bad breath, also known as halitosis (Aylikci & Colak, 201...
Francisco
Mar 29, 2023

Now I got you reading the article, and you are wondering why I'm dropping such a strong statement without even mention a scientific reference. We should start remembering tha...
Francisco
Mar 27, 2021

It is often rightly said “Nature is the Best Teacher”. The best treatment modalities in Medical and Dental field are often inspired by body natural healing mechanism. Platelet deri...
manthandesai
Mar 11, 2021

Here the gadgets that we recommend to you to improve your online content and classes. Sony ZV-1 Camera for Content Creators, Vlogging and YouTube with Flip Screen and Microphone Vi...
Francisco
Mar 5, 2021

We have reached a point that if we invite a friend to a webinar about "How to Place an Immediate Implant in a Giraffe", our friend will most likely decline the offering and excuse...
Francisco
Mar 3, 2021

Trying to perform implant dentistry without understanding bone dynamics, guided bone regeneration basic techniques, and biology is like organizing a barbecue for vegans. We have to...
Francisco
Feb 28, 2021

One of the most dramatic situations in our daily practice is to have patients that complain about an implant in the aesthetic zone that does not meet their expectations. One of the...
Francisco
Oct 18, 2020

When we dive into the world of periodontal plastic surgery, it is unavoidable to avoid failure during the learning curve. Do not feel discouraged; you should know that it is part o...
JorgeAlania
Jul 23, 2020

This content is only for Patrons. This package includes: Alveolar Ridge Preservation presentation on PowerPoint and Keynote Animation Gap impact on marginal bone loss around implan...
Francisco
Jul 22, 2020

If you’re like most people, you brush twice a day. But if you mindlessly move your toothbrush around your mouth, your oral hygiene routine may be ineffective or worse: It may be ha...
Francisco
Jul 14, 2020

Like most good things in life are accidental, Platform Switching , too, was discovered accidentally. During the late ’80s, Nobel Biocare introduced wide-diameter Branemark implants...
manthandesai
Jun 21, 2020

Every day , we are bombarded by thousands of ads in the form of banners, links, and emails, where companies try to make themselves heard amidst the noise of advertising and f...
Francisco
Jun 8, 2020

Creating high-quality overhead videos of dental procedures can be challenging, especially when on a tight budget. But fear not, as capturing professional-looking footage without br...
Francisco
Jun 5, 2020

I started to get interested, in detail, about Alveolar Ridge Preservation and Soft Tissue Management about 7 years ...
nicolashenner
May 24, 2020

Crestal bone stability around dental implants remains one of the most important and wanted features of successful implant treatment. Yet, it seems like crestal bone loss was with u...
Tomas
May 17, 2020

Every month, we're bringing you a few of the Periospot´s favorite business-related reads. Nothing related directly with dentistry, but can always help you to think “out-of-the-box"...
Francisco
Apr 30, 2020

Excellence encompasses much more than what we do within the oral cavity. Clinical practice is not immune to the organization and everything that happens far from the dental chair....
Primitivo Roig
Apr 14, 2020

It is estimated that the global dental market will reach 37 billion dollars in 2021 . These were the estimations before this COVID-19 global pandemic crisis came across our li...
Francisco
Mar 30, 2020

Bone atrophies are one of the most challenging situations in modern implantology, and they affect many different patients in many different regions of the jaws. This increasing rat...
DL Oral Surgery
Feb 9, 2020

Imagine 10 years ago, on a typical barbeque Sunday afternoon, at home with your family. You're turning the coal in the grill as you're talking with your brother-in-law. Being the v...
Francisco
Aug 17, 2019

Jim Collins, the author of the book Good to Great , once said, "The main point is to first get the right people on the bus, and the wrong people off the bus, b...
Francisco
Jul 22, 2019

Many times, after giving a class or a talk, in a course or in a meeting, I am asked questions not related to dentistry. Almost always the questions are "How do you do those animati...
Francisco
Jun 30, 2019

It was while ago when the first article about the Bundle Bone, the Gap , and Immediate Implants started coming out. These are mega-topics that are always present in all the congres...
Francisco
Apr 7, 2019

How Dentists value immediate returns and their relationship to the human brain and digital dentistry
There is no doubt that Digital Dentistry is here to stay. It’s not a fad or a trend. It is already a standard workflow for many dentists around the world, and it’s growing ev...
Francisco
Apr 7, 2019

Talking about alveolar ridge preservation (or socket preservation) always reminded me of a story about an American comedian performing a gig in New York City. He walked onto...
Francisco
Jan 27, 2019

In the 19th century, an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto found an exciting discovery while he was farming in his small garden. He noticed that a small number of pea po...
Francisco
Dec 22, 2018

On the 14th August of 1385, a battle was fought between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile. This battle was named the Aljubarrota Battle, and it was decisive for ruli...
Francisco
Dec 9, 2018

Introduction to Immediate Implant in Molars Immediate implant placement into a fresh extraction sockets has become a common and well documented clinical procedure, especially in th...
Emilio
Apr 29, 2018

Introduction to Stranger Implants Lately, there is a lot of buzz around Stranger Things tv show. For those who were just kids growing during the '80s, like me, this TV sh...
Francisco
Dec 12, 2017

Dimensional changes of the alveolar ridge following tooth extraction continue to burden restorative implant treatment. Many clinical studies have verified that the buccal part of t...
Francisco
Jul 4, 2017

Myths have been present since human civilization was described for the first time, and implant dentistry is sometimes subjected to some "myths". It is nothing new. It´s human natur...
Francisco
May 29, 2017

Did you ever attend a class about sutures? I´m sure you did, and I´m sure it was boring as hell. Mainly because in those classes, we were learning the necessary skills to suture th...
Francisco
Jun 19, 2016

Introduction Once again, before I start writing this post, I did a poll on Twitter about immediate loading: And it seems that dentists they do love immediate loading...or perhaps,...
Francisco
Apr 7, 2016

When I'm in the middle of a discussion about the topic of immediate implants, I always remember Schulte. Schulte was the first to describe the placement of the immediate impla...
Francisco
Mar 27, 2016

Introduction One of the major concerns is soft tissue recession around implants that may appear over time (Adell et al. 1981; Grunder 2000) and this is an important issue not only...
Francisco
Sep 22, 2015

Recommending implant dentistry books is easy; buying them is slightly more difficult (some of them are expensive), but reading an entire book is tough work, and sometimes can be bo...
Francisco
Aug 26, 2015

I´m sure you have heard about that there is an app for even the most obscure need or interest. You can find an app that simulates you are drinking a cold beer, an app that makes pr...
Francisco
Aug 6, 2015

My camera My camera is a Nikon 610. Full frame and it is also the camera that I used to do the video that was on the page about Dental Photography. Lens I only use the original Nik...
Francisco
Aug 6, 2015

Despite existing tons of image / photo softwares out there, sometimes it can be a little confusing which one to choose. When you talk with someone about this topic, the software th...
Francisco
Aug 5, 2015

After receiving some emails from some followers, I decided to create this tutorial to introduce how I create my illustrations. First of all you should get Illustrator from Adobe. I...
Francisco
Aug 5, 2015

Papers is an Appel Design Award and Ars Desig Award winning solution for managing research literatura. Now, it´s time for Papers 3 to take your personal library of research to a wh...
Francisco
Aug 4, 2015

We all know that unavoidable ridge resorption occurs after an extraction (I´m not going to mention the bibliography because I´m sure you all know those articles from Amler to Arauj...
Francisco
Aug 4, 2015

Introduction There are some questions about what is or what is not platform switching, and of course, what are the advantages of having a platform-switched concept in the implants...
Francisco
Aug 4, 2015

Introduction Nowadays, implantology is a predictable area and well-accepted by the scientific community for missing or doubtful prognosis tooth repositioning. More than 30 years ag...
Francisco
Aug 3, 2015

In this article, Araujo & Lindhe conclude that "the placement of Bio-Oss Collagen" in the buccal gap between the implant and the buccal-approximal bone walls of fresh extractio...
Francisco
Aug 3, 2015

The fact that you’re spending your precious time reading these lines right now is mind-blowing. Seriously. And as an act of appreciation we are not going to waste your time, so let...
Francisco
Jul 30, 2015

