Therapy for missing lower medial incisor by means of reduced diameter implants

Since Branemark first described the principle of osseointegration in the field of dentistry, dental implantology has become a rapidly evolving and innovative field. In 2004, the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs cited dental implants as the ''first generation of tissue engineering devices that will affect the dental profession.'' Accordingly, a wide variety of implant materials, shapes, sizes, and surface treatments have been devised. Implant therapies in patients with small availability of space and bone are a great challenge today. In lacking bone supply buccolingually and with reduced intercoronal space of 5.0 mm, definitive therapy with diameter-reduced mini dental implant is possible in individual cases. The nonablative thread architecture particularly enables gentle bone spreading and bone condensing of the implant bed and considerably improves primary stability.