Today sinus “lifting” has become a very simple procedure. What in our clinic we call “mini” sinus lift, that in our slang means trans-crestal sinus floor elevation, has become today a really predictable technique and allow us to avoid in…

In the answer to this question lays much of the philosophy that characterizes my clinical approach and my teachings. Because the answer is pretty simple: “Following the letter of the surgical technique.”   You don’t need overthinking, you don’t need…

Yes I know, I know sinus membrane perforation is a quite frequent complication in sinus floor elevation, but today I want to talk a little bit about how to manage a huge membrane perforation. And the surgery was not that…

In the last two articles we have spoken a little bit about mucogingival surgery unpacking for you the coronally advanced flap technique in all details.   Now I know you want to come back to bone and implants. So here…

After the first video, made with a paper model, let’s see the practical application on the patient of the coronally advanced flap technique.   Do you remember? These are basic concepts you can’t not know if you perform dental implants,…

I’m talking about implantologists neither studying nor practicing mucogingival surgery before engaging themselves to implant surgery. In my (not so) humble opinion it’s like a construction company building houses without knowing how ether  to paint walls or to put down…

Some time ago I posted this case on Facebook: And this is the two-year-follow-up (sorry for the pic of the screen taken with a smartphone). In a comment below, a colleague was wondering why the so called horizontal “force breaking”…

There’s a new problem in dentistry that will knock you out of the game in no time if you don’t figure out to learn a few things. This problem’s name is peri-implantitis. In the past, surgeons used to place very…

I see new regenerative techniques appearing that would allow horizontal and vertical regeneration, deliberately leaving exposed membranes.   We started with PTFE membranes, now we’re at “occlusive titanium membranes” or something like that. It seems that this bogey soft tissue…

I use the Free Gingival Graft a lot in implantology but I’m not used  to choosing it in periodontology because I don’t like it so much. I think it’s old stuff. But there are some few cases that definitely require…