Daniel Buser
Daniel Buser, Prof. em. Dr. med. dent, was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oral Surgery and Stomatology at the University of Bern for approximately 20 years. His main scientific interests include tissue integration of dental implants, surface technology and guided bone regeneration including autografts and bone substitutes. He has authored/co-authored with his team around 400 publications and book chapters. Daniel Buser was ITI President (2009 to 2013) and received the most important awards in implant dentistry such as the André Schroeder Research Prize (1995), the Brånemark Osseointegration Award (2013), and an ITI Honorary Fellowship (2018). He continues to be an active implant surgeon in a private implant center and to share his surgical knowledge with the young generation using hybrid Master Courses with live and on-demand streaming.
Articles
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The rehabilitation of the posterior maxilla with an implant-supported prosthesis is often a demanding treatment for the implant surgeon. The local anatomy can be difficult due to a reduced ridge height in potential implant sites. The present clinically oriented paper discusses the three surgical options available: (i) the utilization of short implants, (ii) sinus floor elevation (SFE) with the lateral window technique, and (iii) SFE with the transalveolar osteotome technique.
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In recent years, a marked increase in esthetic implant complications and failures has been observed. This article focuses primarily on esthetic failures, i.e. severely compromised treatment outcomes, mostly making implant removal unavoidable. The first part enumerates the most frequent causes of such failures, namely implant malposition, adjacent implants and oversized implants.
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Implant placement post single tooth extraction in the esthetic zone is an important and frequent indication for implant therapy. Today, the clinician can choose from four different treatment approaches for the timing of implant placement. The decision for the most appropriate treatment plan should be based on a thorough clinical and radiographic examination and well-defined selection criteria.
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Peri-implantitis is a biofilm-mediated inflammatory process that leads to soft- and hard-tissue breakdown. Peri-implant diseases are the most frequent biologic implant complication in daily practice. Certain systemic conditions as well as detrimental habits have been demonstrated to negatively impact peri-implant tissue health and stability.
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Successful long-term outcomes in implant dentistry require a sufficient amount of bone surrounding the inserted dental implants. Tooth extraction and infectious diseases may cause severe bone resorption with the necessity for horizontal bone augmentation if implant therapy is targeted.
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Over the past decade, the use of digital technology in implant treatment planning and static computer-assisted implant surgery (sCAIS) has revolutionized the planning and execution of guided implant surgeries. However, the predictability of achieving a high degree of accuracy when using a digital workflow and sCAIS has been a subject of debate. For sCAIS procedures to transition from clinical success in individual cases to a broadly applicable procedure, a better understanding and control of variables that affect their accuracy is essential.
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Due to its advantageous physical, biological, and esthetic properties as well as its resistance to corrosion, zirconia as a biomaterial to replace missing tooth roots has been the focus of great interest and may become a reliable alternative to titanium implants.
To present and discuss the preclinical data available on osseointegration of zirconia implants placed in the jawbone.
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The mean age of candidates for implant surgery as well as dental patients is generally increasing due to the growing life expectancy worldwide. While being older per se is no contraindication for implant therapy, it often implies medical conditions and more medication (polypharmacy). These aspects often reduce the resilience of patients and lead to increased risk of complications after implant surgery.
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Evidence on the use of short dental implants has substantially increased in recent years. Consequently, short dental implants have expanded treatment options.
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Local soft tissue deficits often follow tooth loss and implant therapy. Under these circumstances, future implant reconstructions should aim to completely or at least partially compensate this loss in order to minimize any adverse effects, namely compromising subjective patient comfort. In the main, this encompasses disconcerting food impaction, as well as esthetic and phonetic impairment. The present article reviews the relevant prosthetically driven compensation measures, confining itself to the esthetic zone of partially dentate implant patients and fixed dental prostheses (FDP).