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Radiolucency around coronal portion of the implant: next steps?

The radiograph showed radiolucency around coronal portion of the implant. I tried to unscrew the implant but the implant was stable. (Source: Dental Implants Discussed by Experts)

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Denture Technician

Anchorage area lab is looking for an experienced denture technician for full-time employment.

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New gel to promote bone growth on implants used in orthopaedic and dental surgical procedures

A research group at Uppsala University has developed a new responsive coating for implants used in surgery to improve their integration into bone and to prevent rejection. Neutron scattering experiments at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble have shown how a protein that promotes bone growth binds to this surface and can be released in a controlled way.
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Since August, members downloaded 2,400 journal articles from ADA Library

Since the launch of the ADA Library & Archives website in August 2013, more ADA members are accessing and downloading more journal articles.

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David Sedaris

“Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.”
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Immediate loading of implants installed in a healed alveolar bony ridge or immediately after tooth extraction: an experimental study in dogs

ConclusionsDifferent patterns of sequential early healing were found at implants installed in healed alveolar bone or in alveolar sockets immediately after tooth extractions. However, three months after implant installation, no statistically significant differences were found for the hard? and soft?tissue dimensions. (Source: Clinical Oral Implants Research)

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Media Advisory: UB celebrates National Prosthodontics Awareness Week…

“I want to use NAPAW to raise awareness of all the contributions that prosthodontists and all branches of dentistry are doing on a pro bono basis to give back a smile to those in need.”

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Novel antibacterial orthodontic bracket cement developed

At the 43rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, Mary Anne Sampaio de Melo, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, presented a research study titled “Antibacterial Orthodontic Cement Containing a Quaternary Ammonium Monomer Dimethylaminododecyl…
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ADA/HVO programs draw enthusiastic support from volunteers, donors

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania—Volunteers continue to share their expertise to help Tanzanian dental professionals improve the oral health of the country’s citizens through an ADA/Health Volunteers Overseas program that provides chairside instruction and lectures to undergraduate and postgraduate students at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and continuing education to the faculty.

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Outcome of single immediate implants placed in post-extraction infected and non-infected sites, restored with cemented crowns: A 3-year prospective study

Conclusions Under the tested conditions, immediate implant placement can be considered a predictable treatment option for the restoration of fresh postextraction infected sockets. Clinical significance Immediate implants may be indicated for replacing teeth lost due to chronic periapical lesions with endodontic failure history when appropriate preoperative procedures are taken to clean and decontaminate the surgical sites. (Source: Journal of Dentistry)

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