IMMEDIATE LOADING: WHERE ARE THE LIMITS

The original protocol to load the dental implants is after a healing period of 3-6 months. On the other hand, advances in implantology and continuous experimental and clinical research have provided clinicians to address more demanding clinical situations. The patient demand for reduced treatment time is one of this situations.

We can find a lot of studies in the literature about immediate loading, although the results of this studies should be interpreted with caution, since they vary widely with respect to important determinants of implant success as inclusion/exclusion criteria for patient selection, area of implant placement, number of implants, design and materials of the temporary prosthesis and loading protocol.

The immediate loading is the present and the future of our dental practice involving teeth replacement, but is it an option for all the patients? do we have to give this treatment solution to everybody who demand it? The aim of this conference is to answer this questions, as well to explain the details to perform dental implant treatment with immediate loading protocols step by step in our clinic, regarding to the scientific literature and having the same confidence and probability of success comparing to delay protocols.