#StraumannLive at the #EAO2018 in Vienna: Ophir Fromovich on Immediacy

Modern dentistry is evolving constantly and at a fast pace. Straumann strongly focuses on important trends in dentistry in order to offer your patients innovative treatment options that make them smile – and you stand out from the competition. In this EAO issue of “Straumann Live”, we present you what key opinion leaders like Ophir Fromovich, Blackie Swart, Hugo Madeira, and Stefan Röhlung have to say about the topics Immediacy, Digital Dentistry and Ceramic Implants.

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The BLX design has two features that do not contribute to increased initial stability. One is the neck of the implant being narrower than the outside diameter of the threads. Engagement of the crestal cortical bone in the maxilla, especially in sinus elevation situations where there may only be 2-4mm of bone below the sinus, offers the best opportunity to maximize initial stability. The narrow, unthreaded neck of the BLX will not engage this bone on full seating of the implant. Secondly, deep threads, while cutting into the bone, provide a space for the bone to compress into whereas threads with less of a difference between the outside diameter and inside diameter of the threads compress the bone outwards during insertion into an undersized socket, generating higher initial torque, the measure of stability with a screw implant. Zimmer published its study comparing the Tapered Screw-Vent (Niznick 1999 - 2 deg. taper/shallow V-threads) with the NobelActive (9 deg. taper/deep buttress threads) and documented 29% greater initial stability (120Ncm vs 93Ncm). In this report, the Straumann Bone Level straight implant generated only 60Ncm of torque, 100% less than the Tapered Screw-Vent.