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As 2024 draws to a close, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on what has been a strong and eventful year for the ITI and to share our aspirations as we look ahead to 2025 and beyond.
As 2024 draws to a close, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on what has been a strong and eventful year for the ITI and to share our aspirations as we look ahead to 2025 and beyond.
The burden of osteoporosis Osteoporosis is a common skeletal disease characterized by reduced bone mineral density (BMD) and changes in the microarchitectural structure of bones which predispose patients to an increased risk of fractures. It is often referred to as a “silent disease” as many people become aware they have
Twelve years after the publication of the landmark book The SAC Classification in Implant Dentistry, the ITI has now released a fully revised and updated second edition of the book. The updated SAC Tool will follow in early 2022. This evidence-based, objective framework for the assessment of the difficulty, complexity and risk
2022 has some great new ITI membership benefits in store. But what do our members like most about the ITI and why did they join us in the first place? To find out more, we asked one of our ITI Members, Simon Bate from UK. Read the interview to see how the
Introduction It is estimated that around 12-18 million implants are sold annually across the globe. The likelihood of a patient attending your dental practice with at least one dental implant in situ is high (Klinge et al. 2018). This reinforces the need for general dentists to acquire the knowledge and
One of our biggest challenges in implant dentistry is managing patient expectations and providing long-term patient-centered solutions. Patients expect dental implants to look and function like teeth, but we know as implantologists that due to anatomical variance differences will always remain. A dental implant lacks a periodontal ligament and is
Soft tissue management is a crucial aspect of any bone augmentation procedure, since wound dehiscence is detrimental to new bone formation. Looking at the data in the literature, this is not so rare, indeed an incidence of dehiscence around 12-20% has been recently reported for vertical bone augmentation with guided
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