Urs Belser
Prof. Dr. Urs Belser was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Fixed Prosthodontics and Occlusion at the University of Geneva School of Dental Medicine from 1983 - 2012 and President of the School of Dental Medicine in Geneva from 2005 to 2009. He is currently Guest Professor at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern. Urs Belser was Editor-in-Chief of Forum Implantologicum from 2103 to 2107 and is an Honorary Fellow of the ITI. His research interests focus on esthetics, CAD/CAM technology and high performance dental ceramics as well as on adhesive reconstructive dental medicine.
Articles
Feature Article
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).
Feature Article
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.
Feature Article
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.