Uneventful open-healing using resorbable collagen membranes

In his lecture at the Geistlich + YOU online congress, Dr. Robert Carvalho Da Silva from Brazil shared his insights on the clinical impact of filling the gap when implants are placed immediately after tooth extraction. The focus was bone and soft tissue regeneration for preventing esthetic and biologic complications in the long run.

How long is long enough? Dr. Jordi Caballé-Serrano investigated membranes with different barrier times and their impact on bone regeneration. His findings shed new light on a question customers often ask us.

Dental patients cannot be treated while wearing masks. Are dental professionals therefore at a high risk of contagion? What are the most important measures for dealing with the new situation? Prof Christoph Hämmerle provides answers.

For long time, soft tissue management was seen as purely esthetic. But around implants both keratinized tissue and sufficiently thick soft tissue have protective functions.

Dr. Hector Sarmiento has broad experience in the treatment of peri-implantitis. He recently published a new classification system and a basic treatment protocol with different surgical alternatives. We asked him to share his findings and opinions.

Not all patients on anti-resorptive therapy have a high risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw. When is implantation possible, and what should a dentist consider?

In the past few years a new gene splicing method has fundamentally changed the game for genetics: Crispr/Cas9. These “gene scissors” allow DNA genome building blocks to be modified with previously unimaginable precision

Prof. Gong Ping is professor, doctor advisor and director of the Implant Center of West China College of Stomatology. Besides being the associate director of the Dental Implantology Specialty Committee of Chinese Stomatological Association, she is an active member of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID) and the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). She is author and co-author of several articles in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks, and she gives lectures at national and international meetings.

Do tooth movement modalities have an impact on the intrinsic healing pattern of intrabony defects treated with Geistlich Bio-Oss^® and Geistlich Bio-Gide^®? A preliminary histological evaluation gives the first answers.¹

Bone block or GBR? Form-stable membrane or customized titanium scaffold? We discussed vertical ridge augmentation treatment options with two experts: Dr. Isabella Rocchietta, London/ United Kingdom and Prof. Bilal Al-Nawas, Mainz/Germany.

In the age of computer-aided drug design, many believe accidental discoveries in the natural sciences and medicine are a thing of the past. However, and fortunately, that is not the case.

Many, many techniques are available to gain vertical bone height—including meshes, non-resorbable membranes, bone blocks or osteotomies. Prof. Matteo Chiapasco, Italy, has successfully used most of them. Why did he switch to Yxoss CBR^®?

Are xenogeneic matrices valuable alternatives to autologous soft tissue grafts for increasing mucosal thickness, gaining keratinized mucosa width, and reducing patient morbidity? A collaboration between Spanish and US researchers, led by Dr. Jordi Gargallo-Albiol, answered this question with a systematic review and meta-analysis.¹

Dr. Mike Newman* is an advocate of the use of an interactive surgical simulator for dental healthcare professionals. We asked him to help us shed light on this new and exciting possibility.

Can Ridge Preservation reduce vertical changes and thereby prevent sinus lift? For the first time, this question has been investigated in a prospective randomized clinical trial.

Does bone regeneration work better in a defect site loosely filled with a bone substitute material, or is compression of the biomaterial beneficial? Prof. Jung-Chul Park, Korea, is among the first researchers to investigate this question in a clinical study. Here he talks with Niklaus Stiefel from Geistlich’s research department about existing evidence and speculation in the field of compressive forces.