In 2009, the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) was initiated. Its release of interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP) core competencies in 2011 was pivotal for the engagement of health care professionals, including…
Interprofessional education (IPE) is a relatively new part of dental education. Its implementation is mandated by accreditation standards, but it is also essential to good patient care. Diverse dental schools…
Interprofessional collaboration in health has become essential to providing high-quality care, decreased costs, and improved outcomes. Patient-centered care requires synthesis of all the components of primary and specialty medicine to…
Linda M. Kaste, DDS, MS, PhD, Editor Leslie R. Halpern, MD, DDS, PhD, MPH, Editor In 2009, six health professional educational associations came together to enhance efforts to develop team-based…
The edentulous mandible is the safest and most convenient site for implant treatment. It is characterized by a thick, hard layer of cortical bone, which provides good primary stability for…
Esthetics play an important role in any prosthodontic treatment. However, it is at its most significant when it involves the teeth of the anterior maxilla. If the best possible final…
The posterior mandible requires exceptionally careful, reproducible preoperative investigation, for both medical and forensic reasons. The inferior alveolar nerve in particular is at risk from implant placement in the posterior…
The anterior mandible represents the most comfortable operating area for the implantologist. The main contributing factors for this include: good access and a good view of the operation site; a…
Fig. 5.1 (a, b) Preoperative radiographs reveal dystrophic obliteration of the canal spaces in tooth #5. Access and instrumentation was performed on #4, but only the buccal canal in #5…
Fig. 4.1 Periapical radiograph of a right mandibular second molar with associated apical pathosis (a) and the post-endodontic periapical radiograph with obturation material demonstrating the complex nature of the root…
