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Tissue Blanching When Seating An Implant Restoration

By Lee Ann Brady on 05.29.19

One of the most important and difficult pieces of implant prosthodontics is mimicking the beauty of the biology. The tissue position, color and properties are often what gives away that this is Read More

Zirconia Implants

By Lee Ann Brady on 04.14.17

This week we had a patient in the office with a complex treatment planning dilemma. A number of years ago she lost tooth #10  and replaced it with a bridge from the central to the canine. The bridge Read More

Fabricating A Custom Implant Impression Coping

By Lee Ann Brady on 09.08.14

Custom anterior implant provisionals allow us to alter the emergence profile of the abutment from the top of the fixture to the free gingival margin so we can optimize the pink esthetics during tissue Read More

Anterior Implant Provisionals: Yes or No?

By Lee Ann Brady on 08.29.14

If your goal is to create optimal tooth and gingival esthetics, than the answer in my book is YES. Probably one of the most common questions i get is why the lab can't simply go from a fixture level Read More

Full Circle Back to Screw Retained Implant Crowns

By Lee Ann Brady on 01.28.14

Last week at the Seattle Study Club Symposium I was talking with a group of the other presenters and we were all remarking how implant restorations have come full circle back to screw retained. It is Read More

Planning for Future Implants

By Lee Ann Brady on 12.04.13

Often implant reconstruction is approached as an all or nothing proposition. The challenge with this approach is implant dentistry is costly and for many patients their financial constraints result in Read More

Removable Gingival Mask

By Lee Ann Brady on 11.07.13

Every once in awhile we encounter a patient where replacing lost alveolar bone and gingival tissue can not be accomplished with our routine procedures. When confronted with loss of periodontium that Read More

Flap or Flapless Implant Placement?

By Lee Ann Brady on 09.25.13

As a non-surgeon I often listen in confusion to the debate about whether to place implants with or without a flap. One of the biggest reasons that I have heard in support of a flap is the ability to Read More

Fractured Lateral Incisor in a deep bite patient

Opening Vertical And Anterior Guidance

By Lee Ann Brady on 08.15.13

In January of next year the Seattle Study Club Symposium will be in Phoenix. I am excited to be presenting at the meeting for the first time, and my topic is "Implant Reconstruction for the Read More

Plumbers Tape & Screw Access Holes

By Lee Ann Brady on 07.08.13

One of the challenges I run into with implant dentistry is managing the crew access holes. Now we all hope to fill them once and then never have to get to the head of the screw again, but this is Read More

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