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Video of one of my patients discussing implants. This patient was edentulous for many years and was having great difficulty maintaining the lower denture. I placed two implants into his lower jaw and this helped dramatically to improve his oral function. |
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Here it is folks... This is the best overdenture attachment so far both for implants and natural teeth. I had the pleasure of working with the Zest Anchor company on the design of this one and I am very happy as to the way it turned out. Many thanks to Scott Mullaly from Zest Anchors for his work on this design... |
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Bar overdentures are stable, retentive and can do an excellent job in providing an esthetic, functional restoration for patients missing all of their teeth. This module shows the replacement of a failing maxillary dentition. |
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Here is a mandibular version of a bar overdenture. I do hundreds of these and find them to be a most satisfactory restoration for my patients. |
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Many older americans have disabilities that make it difficult to insert and remove a dental prostheses. This section will show you how I handled this situation for one of my patients with Parkinson's Disease. |
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Converting a Tooth Supported Overdenture to Implants. This patient had an overdenture that was retained by the two lower cuspid teeth. When she lost these teeth, I converted her to an implant supported overdenture which actually worked much better than the original restoration. |
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Placing Dental Implants in the Anterior Mandible. This is a step by step presentation of the surgical procedure to place implants in the anterior mandible. |
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ZAAG Implant Abutment Overdenture. [as seen in Dentistry Today] This is the classical article describing the two implant overdenture technique. |
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Implant supported overdenture utilizing ZAAG (Zest) attachments. Here we used four implants and four attachments to stabilize a lower denture. |
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Maxillary Clip-Bar Overdenture. This patient had implants placed in both the upper and lower jaw. The lower jaw used four separate attachments to stabilize and retain the overdenture and the maxillary arch used four implants and a Hader bar for the same purpose. I believe that bars are essential for the upper jaw... |
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Slant-Lock Overdenture - My answer to Spark Erosion. This is a really neat way to make an overdenture that can be "locked" into place. I wrote the definitive article on this and it was published in The Compendium. |
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ZAAG Bar Overdenture, This is an excellent bar system that places all of the forces directly over the implants. |
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ERA - Maxillary Bar Overdenture. A very nice result on a difficult situation where there was not a great amount of usable bone available. |
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Implant supported overdenture utilizing ERA attachments. For this patient, we used four implants and a bar with ERA attachments to stabilize and retain a lower denture. |
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