Immediate Implant Placement

Restoring teeth to their ideal state regarding form, comfort, appearance, function, speech & general health is goal of modern dentistry. This can be accomplished by treating dental caries or by replacing several missing teeth, fixed, removable, or implant-supported prostheses being most common options.1 Patients who are completely or partially edentulous can now have restorations done on them thanks to placement of endosseous implants. Word "immediate" appears in the implant literature almost every day, albeit its frequently used ambiguously. When the phrase was first used, it referred to the procedure of placing implant during extracting tooth.

It is currently used for refering to the immediate insertion of a provisional restoration into a socket or onto a healed bone complex on an implant that has just been positioned. The phrase is also used when a provisional restoration is positioned on an implant that is placed right away and the restoration needs to accept functional occlusal loads right away.