Top 5 Reasons You Should Understand Zygoma Implants
Time: 2:45 PM, February 21, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Leslie David
Synopsis:
Historically, alveolar ridge preservation and development have focused on volumetric changes with little attention to tissue quality. The aim of this presentation is to discuss disadvantages, and realistic short- and long-term expectations of traditional methods of alveolar ridge development for implant therapy and to discuss advantages of LASSO GBR, a contemporary method of alveolar ridge development, designed to maximize tissue quality.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this presentation, clinicians should be able to:
1. understand why you need to know about zygomatic implants (ZI)2. review the role of zygomatic implants
3. understand what patients undergo when treated with zygomatic implants
4. discuss the great, the good, and the ugly of zygomatic implants
5. understand the success criteria of ZIs
