Implant exposure after loading!

Tue, 06/23/2009 - 20:16 — Richard Hughes DDS

How does one treat an exposure of the threads on the facial surface? Would you treat this like a subepithelial CT graft?

Implantology

Mon, 06/29/2009 - 06:43 — Dr Chace Heatly

Implant exposure after loading: My thoughts

Dr Hughes

I would need more info. There may be many reasons why the facial theards became exposed ( poor position, thin buccal plate, perio disease).

It is possible to do a CT graft but you are asking for alot. No blood supply over that titanium. Without seeing it its hard to comment but I usually detox the surfaces with tcn, graft with like gem 21 and do a ct graft on top of that.

Hope that helps.

Tue, 06/30/2009 - 16:59 — Dr90210

Richard Hughes I am inclined to agree...

I agree with the above comments. I would need more info. But certainly you can recover via the technique talked about by chace.