This new book focuses on dental implants used in conjunction with other prosthetic devices in the general dentist's office, designed to help the partially or completely edentulous patient recover normal function, esthetics, comfort, and speech. Step-by-step procedures guide practitioners through challenging clinical situations and assist them in refining their technique. The information in this practical, highly illustrated book reflects the latest in continued research, diagnostic tools, treatment planning, implant designs, materials, and techniques. Prosthetic devices covered in this include complete dentures, bridges, overdentures, and various dental implant systems.

• 1.Rationale for dental implants<br>2.An implant is not a tooth - a comparison of periodontal indices<br>3.Generic root form terminology<br>4.Prosthetic options<br>5.Diagnostic imaging and techniques <br>6.Stress factors <br>7.Force factors related to patient conditions<br>8.Available bone and implant dentistry<br>9.Bone density<br>10.Diagnostic casts, treatment prostheses and surgical templates<br>11.Preimplant prosthodontics<br>12.Natural teeth adjacent to multiple implant sites - effect on diagnosis and<br>treatment plan<br>13.Classification and treatment plans for partially and completely edentulous<br>arches in implant dentistry<br>14.An organized approach to treatment options for mandibular implant<br>overdentures <br>15.Mandibular implant overdentures design and fabrications<br>16.Mandibular full arch implant fixed prosthetic options<br>17.Maxillary posterior treatment options<br>18.Maxillary partial and complete edentulous implant treatment plans: fixed and<br>overdenture prostheses<br>19.Clinical biomechanics in implant dentistry<br>20.Scientific rationale for dental implant design<br>21.Posterior single tooth replacement<br>22.Maxillary anterior single tooth replacement<br>23.Principles of cement-retained fixed implant prosthodontics: natural teeth and<br>implant abutments<br>24.Principles of screw-retained prostheses<br>25.Occlusal considerations for implant-supported prostheses: implant-protected<br>occlusion<br>26.Progressive bone loading<br>27.Scientific rationale of immediate load and implant dentistry<br>28.Maxillary denture opposing an implant prosthesis and modified occlusal<br>concepts<br>29.Maintenance of dental implants<br>30.Implant quality of health scale: a clinical assessment of the health disease<br>continuum

Carl E. Misch DDS, MDS, PHD(HC) Clinical Professor and Director, Oral Implant Dentistry, Temple University, Kornberg School of Dentistry, Department of Periodontics and Implant Dentistry, Philadelphia, PA; Clinical Professor, University of Michigan, School of Dentistry, Department of Periodontics/Geriatrics, Ann Arbor, MI; Adjunct Professor, University of Detroit, School of Dentistry, Department of Restorative Dentistry, Detroit, MI; Adjunct Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Engineering, Birmingham, AL; Founder, Misch International Implant Institute, Beverly Hills, MI