Volume 3 Issue 3 (May -June, 2017)

Case Reports

A NOBEL TECHNIQUE FOR RETRIEVAL OF DENTAL IMPLANT ADHERENT COVER SCREW
Pragya Trivedi, Sneha S Mantri, Abhilasha Bhasin

Implant dentistry has emerged as the standard of care in past few decades. It has been benefiting the patients with predictable outcomes. Although higher success rates have been reported in the implant dentistry, there are several complications that do occur. These complications may be surgical, mechanical, biological and esthetic/ phonetic. An unfortunate but often unavoidable occurrence for those of us restoring dental implants is complication with cover screws. There are few literature on the removal techniques for the same. The purpose of this article is to describe a Nobel technique for the retrieval of adherent cover screw.
Key words: Adherent cover screw, cold welding, Thread distortion, retrieval technique.

Corresponding Author: Dr Pragya Trivedi, C/o Dr Ram Manohar Bohare, IV/4 CTO Compound, Opposite to high Court, Jabalpur (M.P), Pin Code: 482001
This article may be cited as: Trivedi P, Mantri S, Bhasin A. A nobel technique for retrieval of dental implant adherent cover screw. Int J Res Health Allied Sci 2017;3(3):1-3.

 
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