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Volume 31 , Issue 1
January/February 2011
Pages 49-55

A Protocol for Immediate Placement of a Prefabricated Screw-Retained Provisional Prosthesis Using Computed Tomography and Guided Surgery and Incorporating Planned Alveoplasty

Stephen F. Balshi, MBE/Glenn J. Wolfinger, DMD, FACP/Thomas J. Balshi, DDS, FACP

PMID: 21365026
DOI: 10.11607/prd.00.0953

Computer-aided design/computer-assisted manufacture technology is changing the way clinicians are planning treatment and delivering dental implant therapy. Although the current technology is impressive and successful clinically, there are limitations in the design that prevent all patients from benefiting immediately from this computer-designed modality. This article describes a unique prosthetically driven protocol that will allow the delivery of a prefabricated screw-retained all-acrylic prosthesis immediately after an alveoplasty with the immediate placement of dental implants. (Int J Periodontics Restorative Dent 2011;31:49–55.)

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