Dear friends, we're slowly coming to the end
of Week 3 in our course.
This week, the discussions focused around
the surgical placement of dental implants
and in particular, much of our interactions were about
minimally invasive implant dentistry.
And as many of you noted and discussed on the forum,
implant dentistry minimally invasive is not something
that we can achieve at a certain point in time.
But rather, it is a continuous effort,
a continuous strive to use the understanding we have
and the knowledge of the biology and the tissues
together with the potential offered to us by the technology
in order to achieve successful outcomes
with less and less invasive procedures,
less and less tissue damage,
less and less treatment time.
When it comes to technology,
certain technological developments in the last few decades
have contributed to us today being able to provide
complex treatments with less and less trauma,
less and less invasive procedures.
If I was to single out some of these development,
the major improvements in the implant surfaces,
together with strengthening of the implant alloys,
and also the improved design of the implants in itself
have contributed to allow us to use smaller
and thinner implants today,
to get increased primary stability in size, I think in the past
we would need to go through complex augmentations
to achieve the same outcomes with reduced tissue damage,
improved healing and satisfy the principles of striving
for achieving our successful outcomes
with less exposure of the tissues,
with less trauma,
with less surgical time and treatment time in total.