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D A Garber

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The esthetic dental implant: letting restoration be the guide.

Dental implants originally were placed according to the availability of supportive bone structures. This article describes a new way of approaching implant placement: envisioning the ideal ultimate restoration and developing the treatment plan--and the implant site--to achieve that goal.

Alveolar Bone Loss↗

Restoration-driven implant placement with restoration-generated site development.

In any restoration or natural tooth, the surrounding soft-tissue profile plays an integral role in the final esthetics of a case. Similarly in implant restorations, it is no longer sufficient to merely attach a prosthetic device to the underlying fixture, but for optimal esthetics it has become essential for the implant site to be reconstituted in a three-dimensional approach. This invariably involves redevelopment or replacement of lost hard tissue and redevelopment of the correct soft-tissue profile, so that the implant can be placed in the desired position as determined by the restoration, while the soft-tissue profiles are in turn generated by the actual form and contours of the prosthetic device. This article addresses an approach to implant site development.

Alveolar Process↗

Demonstration of circularization of herpes simplex virus DNA following infection using pulsed field gel electrophoresis.

Studies of the configuration of intracellular herpes simplex virus DNA have been limited by the inability of restriction enzyme analyses to distinguish circular DNA from other configurations. To address this issue, we used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of virus-infected, cycloheximide-treated cells and detected accumulation of viral DNA that failed to migrate out of the sample wells of the gels. This DNA lacked terminal restriction fragments and could be converted to unit-length linear species by gamma-irradiation, demonstrating the circularization of viral DNA following infection.

Animals↗

Gene transfer into mammalian central nervous system using herpes virus vectors: extended expression of bacterial lacZ in neurons using the neuron-specific enolase promoter.

A herpes simplex virus (HSV) vector in which the mammalian promoter for neuron-specific enolase (NSE) controls expression of a marker gene was analyzed for its ability to drive expression of this foreign gene in culture and in vivo. In cultured cells, the vector appeared to give neuron-specific expression. Introduction of 10(6) pfu of the virus into the adult rat caudate nucleus by stereotactic injection was not toxic to the animals and yielded beta-galactosidase (beta-gal)-positive neurons for at least 30 days after viral inoculation. This recombinant herpes virus vector is the first described to use a mammalian promoter to yield extended expression of a foreign gene product in the adult mammalian central nervous system (CNS).

Animals↗

Patient maintenance of esthetic restorations.

There are probably as many ways to maintain esthetic restorations as there are restorations. After esthetic treatment is completed, schedule a mandatory postoperative appointment to make certain that whatever technique the patient uses is effective. At the postoperative visit, it should be apparent that the patient's tissue is healthy. If the tissue has not healed, some change in home care or additional periodontal or restorative treatment may be necessary. There are virtually hundreds, perhaps even thousands of home plaque removal devices. The ones mentioned here have worked for us and are therefore discussed. It isn't the type of device that is critical, however, but patient compliance. The described regimens have worked effectively for us in overcoming this obstacle of compliance. Appropriate recall visits with the hygienist should be made at one- to six-month intervals. In the final analysis, your success with esthetic restorations may well depend on your patients' success with esthetic maintenance.

Dental Devices, Home Care↗