CLINICAL CASE

Buccal bone augmentation during immediate implant placement

Dr. Bastian Wessing

Patient: 24-year-old female.

Clinical situation: Hopeless tooth 11 after traumatic accident with discoloring, persistent pain and mobility grade II.

Surgical solution: Immediate implant placement with gap augmentation using creos™ xenogain (small granules).

Restorative solution: Immediate provisional restoration.

Final restoration: NobelProcera® ASC Abutment with veneered zirconia. 

Surgery date: May and August 2016 Total treatment time: 3 months.

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Initial clinical situation

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Pre-operative situation: single X-ray after three months of endodontic treatment after trauma (left).

In the facial view, tooth 11 (FDI) appears discolored with persistent pain and mobility grade II (Miller) (right).

Surgical procedure

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Extraction of hopeless tooth 11 (FDI), with intact buccal bone (left).

Pilot-drill with a lab side drilling guide and extension drill into the alveolar-palatal bone (right).

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Immediate implant placement using a NobelActive® 4.3 × 13 mm implant (left).

Optimized implant placement: slightly palatal without compression or even contact with the buccal bone (right). 

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Augmentation of the buccal gap with creos™ xenogain (small granules) to reduce bucco-palatal resorption of the alveolar ridge volume (left).

Occlusal view after gap augmentation (right).

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Panoramic radiograph after implant placement.

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Screw-retained provisional titanium abutment after opaque application (left).

Facial view of a chairside provisional for immediate restoration (right).

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Occlusal view of the emergence profile after two months healing time (left).

Impression with an impression coping in an open-tray technique (right).

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Veneered zirconia NobelProcera® ASC Abutment for a screw-retained single implant crown (left).

Side view of the finalized NobelProcera® ASC Abutment with the Omnigrip™ screwdriver on the master cast (right).

Outcome

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Occlusal view of the final restoration after three months' treatment time. Note the slight bucco-palatal resorption of the alveolar ridge (left).

Facial view of the final restoration (right).

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Facial view of the final restoration.

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