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Bone Remodeling After Tooth Extraction: Understanding the Healing Process in Implant Dentistry
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Socket Shield ruined men. Few understand this.
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Mastering Dental Photography: A Comprehensive Guide
Blog EnglishPeriospot Hacks
Introduction to dental photography Digital Dental photography is an essential aspect of modern dentistry, with numerous applications in documentation, treatment planning, patient c...
Francisco
Apr 5, 2023
Socket Shield ruined men. Few understand this.
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Clinical Advantages of the Platelet Rich Fibrin in Dentistry
Blog EnglishImplantology
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...
Francisco
Mar 11, 2021
How to do a Webinar About Dentistry That Your Audience Will Love
Blog EnglishPeriospot Hacks
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
How to Solve the Most Common Bone Defects With Guided Bone Regeneration
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Complications in Dental Implant Dentistry: Buccal Soft Tissue Dehiscences
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Root Coverage Procedures, My First Time! 8 Golden Rules on Esthetic Plastic Periodontal Surgery.
Blog EnglishPeriodontics
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...
Francisco
Jul 23, 2020
The Story Behind Platform Switching
Blog EnglishImplantology
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...
Francisco
Jun 21, 2020
Are all the implant surfaces the same? a review of the different surfaces.
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Low Budget Overhead Video Guide: Recording Dental Procedures Effectively
Blog EnglishPeriospot Hacks
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
4 Techniques to Perform an Effective Ridge Preservation and Soft Tissue Management
Blog EnglishPeriodontics
I started to get interested, in detail, about Alveolar Ridge Preservation and Soft Tissue Management about 7 years ...
Francisco
May 24, 2020
Zero bone loss concepts by prof. Tomas Linkevičius. A path to crestal bone stability
Blog EnglishImplantology
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...
Francisco
May 17, 2020
10 Frequent Mistakes in Dental Practice Management and How to Avoid Them
Blog EnglishPeriospot Hacks
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....
Francisco
Apr 14, 2020
How To Use Social Networks To Boost Your Dental Clinic After Covid-19 Crisis. 11 Simple Recommendations.
Blog EnglishPeriospot Hacks
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
Vertical and Horizontal Bone Augmentation- How to solve complex implant cases with predictable techniques
Blog EnglishImplantology
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...
Francisco
Feb 9, 2020
6 Tools to Boost Your Online​ Dental Marketing
Blog EnglishPeriospot Hacks
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
The Ideal Implant Position in the Aesthetic Zone.
Blog English
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
How to create Animations and Illustrations to Improve your Presentations.
Blog EnglishPeriospot Hacks
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
12 facts about the Bundle Bone, the Gap a​nd Immediate Implants.
Blog EnglishPeriodontics
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
Bundle Bone: The Complete Guide to Gap Management & Immediate Implants
Blog EnglishPeriodontics
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
Apr 7, 2019
How Dentists value immediate returns and their relationship to the human brain and digital dentistry
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Alveolar Ridge Preservation: How to Perform Socket Preservation Techniques
Blog EnglishPeriodontics
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
How Deep Is Your Implant? Supracrestal, Crestal, and Subcrestal Implant Position Revisited.
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Two ways to Restore  Edentulous​ Spaces in the Aesthetic Zone
AestheticsBlog English
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
Immediate implant placement in molar extractions sockets using a definitive abutment.
Blog EnglishImplantology
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...
Francisco
Apr 29, 2018
Stranger Implants: The Top 10 Stranger Implant Cases Seen on Social Media.
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Socket Shield Technique. Report of a case.
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
5 Important Scientific Publications About Implant Dentistry
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
3 Suturing Techniques For Guided Bone Regeneration That You Can Start Using Tomorrow
Blog EnglishPeriodontics
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
How to perform a predictable immediate loading
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Immediate Implants in the Aesthetic zone: Some tips and tricks that will help you
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Soft Tissue Recession Around Implants – A common Complication
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
4 Implant Dentistry Books You Should Start Reading Today
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
Peri-implantitis. A Silent Problem
Blog EnglishPeriodontics
Francisco
Aug 6, 2015
How to learn Periodontal Surgery with an App
Blog EnglishPeriodontics
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
Photography Equipment for a Dentist
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
3 Simple Steps to keep all your Photos Avalaible and Shareable in a Dental Practice
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
How to Create an Illustration
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
What is Papers 3 and how it works
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
How much time I have to wait after an alveolar ridge preservation
Blog EnglishPeriodontics
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
Platform Switching. A Biological Concept
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
10 Tips that Everyone Should Know Before Performing an Implant Treatment in the aesthetic zone
AestheticsBlog English
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
Bio-Oss® Collagen in the Buccal Gap after an Inmediate Implant
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
5 Concepts to Achieve a Successful Immediate Implant Placement Into a Fresh Molar
Blog EnglishImplantology
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
4 connective tissue harvesting techniques that may help you in your daily practice
Blog EnglishPeriodontics
A few weeks ago, while I was at my office in Barcelona performing an implant surgery with a connective tissue graft, I was thinking about how much I used to enjoy this kind of surg...
Francisco
Jul 22, 2015