Farhad - I too wait longer than the "recommended guidelines" of 3,6,12 weeks. Mainly because so many of mine are in "complicated" patients, challenged sites, grafted sites. While I do ALWAYS take an Osstell or Penguin measurement, I agree that they ...

Lloyd is too nice and too polite to mention that this was actually a case I initially treated and we tried to save the tooth at that time per patient desire. I didn't have a good feeling about this tooth from the very beginning and just by chance and ...

Lloyd, There is an entire volume of the ITI Treatment Guide (from Quintessence) dedicated to loading protocols and there you can find all the literature your heart desires. I do know that our own Bob Levine did a study on the Straumann SLActive implant ...