Immediate Implant Placement

<p>Restoring teeth to their ideal state regarding form comfort appearance function speech & general health is goal of modern dentistry. This can be accomplished by treating dental caries or by replacing several missing teeth fixed removable or implant-supported prostheses being most common options.1 Patients who are completely or partially edentulous can now have restorations done on them thanks to placement of endosseous implants. Word immediate appears in the implant literature almost every day albeit it's frequently used ambiguously. When the phrase was first used it referred to the procedure of placing implant during extracting tooth. </p><p>It is currently used for refering to the immediate insertion of a provisional restoration into a socket or onto a healed bone complex on an implant that has just been positioned. The phrase is also used when a provisional restoration is positioned on an implant that is placed right away and the restoration needs to accept functional occlusal loads right away.</p>