While I am a very firm believer in following a protocol that allows a dental implant to heal and integrate in an unloaded state, the introduction of these immediate loading transitional dental implants has provided us with another nifty tool for helping our patients with the reconstruction of their dentition. I feel much more comfortable with a transitional implant taking an immediate load when I know that if I do lose that implant in the future, it will not compromise the success of the patient treatment.

There are lots of applications for transitional implants and this module has just touched on one of them. Perhaps some of you dentists out there have other applications that I would be glad to post for you. Thank you...

 

S. Robert Davidoff, DMD, FACP