Treatment Planning in Implant Dentistry 2024

This second edition of the book will focus on the first phase which is diagnosis and treatment planning; each chapter of the book with feature element of providing dental implants attempts to help clinicians make the best choice for their patients. All the contributors to the book chapters are alumni of the Ostrow School of Dentistry of the University of Southern California; the chapter authors are periodontists and prosthodontists; our programme meets every Thursday for 2 h in treatment planning sessions—we have all the residents attend and many faculty in attendance. Each resident in turn will collect data of patients that will be treated; the resident will present the data collected with images and then develop a course of treatment. Every resident from the time that I was a resident would be asking “why is the patient here”, what is the “biologic price” and “if you do not know where you are going, you never get lost”. Why is the patient here—what are the patient’s wants and needs, and what are the patient’s complaints? For the clinician’s thoughts, what is our diagnosis? How will management be for this patient? What is the biologic price? What is the least invasive path towards a good outcome.