Dr. Hamid Shafie’s Clinical and Laboratory Manual of Implant Overdentures is a ground-breaking guide to this popular and effective treatment modality, which is increasingly seen as the standard of care for the fully edentulous patient. This highly practical step-by-step handbook provides the dentist and laboratory technician with essential instruction and sound clinical support, demystifying this complex subject through systematic evaluation of the available attachment systems to produce treatment plans to best suit the patient’s needs.

Contributors.

Foreword (Dennis Tarnow).

Foreword (Zhimon Jacobson).

Introduction (Hamid Shafie).

Chapter 1 Patient Preferences & Expectations.

Chapter 2 Diagnosis and Treatment Planning.

Chapter 3 Surgical Guide and the Diagnostic Stent.

Chapter 4 Principles of Attachment Selection.

Chapter 5 Stud Attachments.

Chapter 6 Bar Attachments.

Chapter 7 Spark Erosion Technology Milling Process.

Chapter 8 Treatment Success with Implant Overdenture.

Chapter 9 Occlusion & Implant Supported Overdenture.

Chapter 10 Surgical Considerations for Implant Overdenture.

Chapter 11 Straumann Implant System.

Chapter 12 Endopore Dental Implant System.

Chapter 13 Overdenture Implants.

Chapter 14 Loading Approaches in Implant Overdenture.

Chapter 15 Clinical Applications for the Measurement of Implant Stability using Ostell Mentor.

Chapter 16 Follow up and Maintenance of the Implant Overdenture.

Chapter 17 Core Principles of the Successful Implant Practice.

Index