Dental Implant Treatment Planning for New Dentists Starting Implant Therapy

The goal of this book, Dental Implant Treatment Planning for New Dentists Starting Implant Therapy, is to provide information for general dentists and specialists about treatment planning and placement of dental implants at their dental practice. It also serves as a guide to provide some practical answers to some questions that they might have during the initial process of placing dental implants. It is also our goal to draw from the latest dental implant studies in order to provide dentists with as much information possible prior to implementing dental implant therapy. The beginning of the book starts as a preview of dental implant planning, while the remainder of book is divided into two sections-one dealing with surgical dental implant placement and the other section dealing with dental implant restoration.

Author Biography

Dr. Obiechina completed her training in periodontics and implant dentistry from Columbia University. She received her doctor of dental medicine degree from University of Pittsburgh in 1998. She is the recipient of the Melvin Morris award for clinical excellence from Columbia University as well as the Northeast Regional Board Student award for excellence in periodontics from University of Pittsburgh Dental School. Dr. Obiechina has extensive training in periodontal regeneration procedures, soft tissue grafting as well as partial and full mouth reconstruction utilizing dental implants, and all phases of periodontics. She is also skilled with grafting procedures utilizing ramus, chin grafts, and freeze dried cortical bone to prepare implant sites by increasing bone height, as well as sinus elevation utilizing osteotome and lateral window techniques. She has been practicing all scopes of periodontics and implant dentistry for over years, and has active licenses in New York, New Jersey, Washington DC and California. She has published a book released 2011 entitled: Essential Implant therapy: A patients guide Understanding dental implant therapy and Understanding Periodontitis also published in the same year. She also published an article in September 2000 edition of Dentistry Today on treatment of drug-induced gingival overgrowth. She is also a co-author of a paper published in the European Journal of Oral Sciences October 2002 titled Periodontal microbiota and clinical periodontal status in a rural sample in southern Thailand. She has also given a presentation for the April 2001 ADA meeting in Washington D.C. on Periodontal and Prosthetic approach to dental implants. She remains active within the field of periodontics offering continuing education courses and seminars to general dentists.