Dental Materials: Design, Mechanical Properties and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

New dental materials, the development of new products, and the application of new technologies based on recent scientific evidence have allowed us to reduce complications, facilitate clinical procedures, and improve the well-being of our patients. Therefore, dentistry has overcome past times and elucidated new standards of success. Digital dentistry has overcome many limitations of conventional methods, going further to provide an easier and more accurate clinical solutions, mainly involving a reduction in chair time, even overcoming unfavorable scenarios and enhancing patient satisfaction. Soft tissue management and immediate implant placement have been pointed to enhance dental implant therapies, improving the results and the general beliefs of recent times, even associated with a lot of scientific support, but without forgetting all digital methods to enhance the ideal three-dimensional implant positioning and the importance of the bone scenario. Additionally, new scientific evidences in relation to implants of reduced dimensions, involving the height and the diameter, associated with dental implant modifications to enhance the mechanical properties could also entail new standards of success, avoiding more demanding surgical therapies, together with a reduction in patient morbidity, costs, and overall, improving patient quality of life.

Dr. Jordi Gargallo
Guest Editor

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• computer-aided surgery
• three-dimensional imaging
• dental tissue conditioning
• connective tissue
• keratinized tissue
• bone regeneration
• immediate implant placement
• zirconia, small diameter
• narrow diameter
• atrophic maxilla
• short implant
• patient satisfaction