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Why preserve the ridge at extraction? Dr. Larissa Steigmann on alveolar ridge preservation · Straumann® ProTalk

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  Let's face it, it's often a financial decision.
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  A lot of the times I say it's not very sexy.
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  It's not the big augmentation.
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  It doesn't require advanced grafting from you.
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  It's not what we think, it's what we know.
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  Now, what happens in an extraction socket?
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  Bone.
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  And as I told you before, 90% of the cases in the anterior
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  maxilla have less than one.
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  So basically it means most of the time we need to do it, no questions asked.
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  And they came back and I had to re-graft at the time of implant placement.
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  The moment we extract the tooth, biology starts to remodel that ridge.
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  So the real question is, how much of that change can we actually control?
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  In this episode of Straumann ProTalk Clinical, Dr. Larissa Steigmann
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  joins me to discuss alveolar ridge preservation, when it matters, what
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  are we trying to preserve, and how our decision at the time of extraction can
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  influence any implant treatment that
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  follows.
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  Don't miss this episode.
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  Larissa, thank you very much for accepting our invitation, for
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  participating in Straumann ProTalk Clinical directly from International
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  Aesthetic Days in Copenhagen.
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  What an honor to have you with us.
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  Thank you so much for the invitation.
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  It's a pleasure to be here.
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  It's a pleasure to be here with you.
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  Pleasure to be in Copenhagen, Aesthetic Days.
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  Not a bad place to be.
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  Not a bad place to be.
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  The weather could be better, That's what's expected here.
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  Your, luggage could have arrived as well.
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  If my luggage could have arrived, that would've been, probably the one
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  thing that would've solved a lot of problems these days- but it's okay.
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  That is a complex one to solve.
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  That's a- The topic today is not as complex, right?
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  Exactly.
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  Or-
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  We're in control … or it- This one we're in control of.
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  The rest- It's manageable
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  … it's manageable.
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  All right.
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  Exactly.
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  So for everybody listening to us, we're talking today pretty much even though
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  Larissa has a wealth of knowledge that we can pick your brain with, but
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  we're gonna focus a little bit on, something that I know is very close
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  to your heart, you're educating people about, the alveolar ridge preservation.
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  And in the podcast we cover a few building blocks that what is it, why
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  does it matter, and how should we do it?
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  I know this is a conversation, not a lecture or that we have resources.
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  It's more to grasp what ticks your heart, how things are done.
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  And in the context of alveolar ridge preservation, first things first,
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  what exactly are we talking about?
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  Okay.
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  I think, it's one of the topics that is very underrated.
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  I do… I would say that I've seen that in the last years it
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  have gotten a bit more attention.
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  It has emerged more and more in the block, I would say, of
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  regeneration, this hot topic status.
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  Okay?
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  So I'm very glad about that.
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  Why?
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  when we're extracting a tooth, let's think about it.
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  We're talking about implant therapy at the end of the day, right?
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  So any implant therapy starts with a lost tooth, right?
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  Most of the time, we're the one needing to extract this tooth, and we're
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  known or we know that we eventually will need to place an implant.
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  Now, in between, there is a lot of changes happening within our tissue,
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  within our hard tissue and soft tissues that we underestimate, okay?
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  With alveolar ridge preservation, we have a chance to limit the
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  resorptive processes that we know that are occurring, especially when
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  we talk about hard tissues, okay?
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  Meaning bone resorption is occurring after tooth extraction, and it can
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  lead to a lot of problems, meaning a lot of surgical interventions that
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  will need to occur in the future if we're not preserving these tissues.
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  So alveolar ridge preservation, long story short, right?
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  Alveolar ridge preservation is the surgical intervention that is limiting
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  our bone resorptive processes exactly occurring after tooth extraction, and
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  this is the best time to intervene and the best time for us to preserve
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  because we took out the tooth, right?
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  Yeah.
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  So that's why I'm always saying it's such a underrated surgical
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  process, b- s- surgical process because it's more conceptual.
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  It's not a very technical, difficult surgery, okay?
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  I lo- a lot of the times I say it's not very sexy.
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  It's not the big augmentation.
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  It's not the big surgery that makes us feel like we're, doing, being this
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  big surgeon, but the effect of it is so crucial and so big when it comes to
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  the long-term success of our implants.
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  So yeah, that's alveolar ridge preservation.
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  That's the definition, and I like you, you hit the nail on the head.
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  That's pretty much how it defines.
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  And when- When, except in very rare occasion, let's assume a trauma, but
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  normally we don't extract a, or ortho maybe, we don't extract a healthy tooth.
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  Yes.
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  There are, pathological and many factors that could be on the table that can alter
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  the site itself after extracted, right?
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  Yes.
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  And that will dictate probably one route or another.
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  What is your decision-making there to assess a defect site if there's
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  adhesance, if there's one defect, or h- how do we move in that direction?
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  So that actually is the exact point that has been so difficult when it
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  comes to alveolar ridge preservation, because people usually want to have
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  a technique or one combination of our materials that should be used when it
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  comes to alveolar ridge preservation.
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  But-
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  You mean one size fits all or-
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  One size fits all.
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  Oh.
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  Exactly.
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  Once it's we're doing this combination of this bone grafting with this
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  membrane, this is alveolar ridge preservation, but that's not how it works.
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  Exactly how you mentioned, what we need to do is that we
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  need to start with a diagnosis.
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  Like in any aspect of the medical field, before you do any sort of
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  treatment or intervention, you first need to have a diagnosis.
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  So we haven't really done that so far.
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  We haven't really started to diagnose our sockets, and we need
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  to start to diagnose our sockets.
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  How do we do that?
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  We look at the buccal bone.
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  We need to start to look at the buccal bone, especially the
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  thickness of our buccal bone.
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  I
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  don't wanna cut you.
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  You're saying before we even touch the patient, we can assess it, or after
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  extraction, then you make that assessment?
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  You can also do it beforehand.
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  So the a- the ways that you can diagnose your socket is
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  through a CBCT analysis, okay?
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  And additionally, at the time of extraction, additionally,
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  you need to confirm it, right?
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  I see.
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  Because we cannot 100% rely on our CBCT, but exactly, a diagnosis that
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  should be performed through our CBCTs and additionally clinically-
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  confirmed.
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  Now it's clear.
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  Okay.
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  With our periodontal probe.
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  So what do you want to actually look at?
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  Okay.
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  The buccal
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  bone.
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  The
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  buccal bone.
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  So the buccal bone can be, I always say the bone morphology can be two aspects.
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  One is the buccal bone thickness, and the other aspect is the
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  presence or, on the other hand, the absence of our buccal plate, okay?
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  So 90% of our sockets in the anterior maxilla, okay, are or do have less
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  than, one millimeter of buccal bone thickness The biggest predictor
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  that we have for bone volume changes after tooth extraction is what?
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  Buccal bone thickness.
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  Buccal bone.
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  Okay?
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  The thickness.
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  So the thickness is actually dictating what type of combination
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  or the, that we actually first of all need or are in need of the support
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  of alveolar ridge preservation.
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  In the classification that we published, okay, that is exactly describing this
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  type of techniques, there is this differentiation between diagnosing your
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  socket, checking if it has a thickness of more or less or more than one millimeter,
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  and then next, if it has a dehiscence, and then the extent of the dehiscence
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  or the presence of a fenestration.
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  And then you can start one by one to see, do I need a bone
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  grafting with a sealing agent?
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  Do I need a collagen membrane?
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  Do I need a non-resorbable membrane?
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  And then we start to speak more about specifics on how we can
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  actually treat the sockets.
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  Can we, in a nutshell, do a small elaboration how you…
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  Let, let's assume- Yes … I walk into your office.
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  Yes.
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  I don't know if we're gonna be able to picture all three pillars
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  as you… Three pillars you said?
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  All three pillars, but let, I walk into your office.
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  I have an indication for extraction.
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  First we
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  have a coffee.
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  First you walk into my office, where we have a coffee.
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  Then, okay.
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  then you come with the bad news.
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  Then I come with the bad news.
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  First I'm gonna make you feel comfortable, Exactly.
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  Let's assume you make a diagnosis, and I have this, you say, like one
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  millimeter, you assess one millimeter of buccal plate with certain recession
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  Change of phenotype, let's assume.
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  walk me through your-
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  Sure
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  … process there.
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  So basically, we have these three pillars, and I will make it long
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  story short a bit, as much as I can.
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  Yeah.
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  If we have a thick buccal bone, if we only place a collagen that is actually
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  helping us in our homeostasis, we do have a four-wall defect that has a
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  very strong osteogenic potential, where we know that it's not as necessary to
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  actually have alveolar ridge preservation.
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  It's always better, but it's not so crucial.
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  The moment-
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  How thick is a thick?
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  Thick, one millimeter.
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  One?
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  Yes.
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  One plus?
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  Yes, one plus, exactly.
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  That's our cutoff point.
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  That's the borderline.
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  The moment it is less than one millimeter, we know that there's huge benefits,
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  and actually it is almost necessary.
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  It is indicated, and as I told you before, 90% of the cases in the
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  anterior maxilla have less than one.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay?
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  So in 50%, less than 0.5.
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  So basically it means most of the time we need to do it, okay?
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  No questions asked.
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  Then if we just have a thin buccal bone without any dehiscence, we place a bone
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  substitute material with a sealing agent.
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  That can be a collagen or it can be a socket seal, which
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  can be soft tissue, okay?
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  To avoid any sort of soft tissue collapse.
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  Then in the next pillar, it can be a fenestration on the apical aspect,
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  which we most see in endodontic lesions.
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  Or we have an initial dehiscence, so a third of our buccal plate is missing.
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  There we can use a combination of a bone substitute with a collagen membrane, so
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  the called, ice cream cone technique.
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  Cross-linked membrane ideally, that is covering our defect and
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  is placed inside our socket.
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  Then if we start to have less presence, so more than one-third
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  are missing of our buccal bone, we switch to non-resorbable membranes.
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  And I want to emphasize here that we never have to perform any sort of primary
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  closure Which is really confusing.
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  And the moment I start to talk about non-resorbable membranes,
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  everybody starts to panic.
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  I don't like to use non-resorbable membranes.
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  The risk of infection is higher.
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  You have to remove
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  it.
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  I don't know, you have to remove it, you have to all this.
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  And I always say, "This is a different regenerative process."
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  Okay?
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  Here we can use a non-resorbable membrane, okay?
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  Because we actually don't, we're not performing guided bone regeneration.
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  So with this non-resorbable membrane in this type of defects, we're actually
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  tunneling this membrane on the buccal and the lingual aspect in combination
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  with the bone grafting material.
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  And only if we have more than two-thirds of our buccal bone
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  missing, we actually elevate the flap-
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  again, use a non-resorbable membrane to specifically locate it around our
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  defect on an apical extent, making sure it's covering our bone in a combination
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  with a bone grafting material, and close the site without any primary closure,
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  even though we have performed a flap.
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  All right.
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  Okay.
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  Why not closing that?
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  So the biggest misunderstanding when it comes to biology of alveolar ridge
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  preservation is that we're not dealing with a guided bone regeneration or
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  a regeneration of an atrophic ridge.
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  If I now go into my office or you come into my office, right?
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  And you have a defect.
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  You tell me, "Listen, I lost this tooth three years ago, and I have
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  now a resorption of my ridge, and I want to regenerate this bone." I
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  know as a clinician that I need to respect certain principles, okay?
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  Principles of primary closure-
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  angiogenesis- the stability of my bone graft, space maintenance, because if
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  I just place bone graft there and I do absolutely nothing, I don't close it, I
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  don't stabilize it, I will not find bone.
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  Now, what happens in an extraction socket?
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  I take out a tooth, and I would do absolutely nothing.
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  What would I find?
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  Bone.
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  Bone.
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  Why?
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  Because it's, a physiological, genetical different, process that
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  we're having after tooth extraction.
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  This is triggered through the loss of our bundle bone and so on and so
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  forth, so our body is not having this reaction because it's not that w-
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  it doesn't want to regenerate- Yeah
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  like we're doing in guided bone regeneration.
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  Your body wants to bring that back, that bone, because genetically
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  it's triggered that way.
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  So actually, the non-resorbable membrane is not treated the same way.
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  It's not actually being pushed away from our body.
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  The only thing that we need to do when we're using non-resorbable
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  membranes, like you said, we need to remove it after six weeks.
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  Yeah.
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  But the space maintaining,
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  value that we have from it, you still have it.
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  You just don't need to close it with primary closure.
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  And this is why I always say this is the best time of intervention,
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  and we're not moving our tissues.
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  We're not actually manipulating our tissues back and forth and back and forth.
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  Yeah.
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  it's a dream.
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  So there will be sites that as much as you would like to try, even you
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  make some releasing incisions or horizontal s- s- releasing- approach,
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  it will be, even if you want, very hard to, get primary- Yes … closure.
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  A few others, however, c- can be quite easier.
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  What you're saying about n-
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  It's not necessary or it plays against you?
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  So- Plays against you.
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  Oh.
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  Oh, it does play against you.
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  No, it does, not play against you in terms of the regenerative process.
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  Okay.
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  It plays against you in the, with the goal of having an
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  aesthetic outcome in the future.
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  Because it is not necessary, so if you're performing it, it means that you're
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  moving your tissues, you're damaging your tissues, you're compromising
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  your blood supply, where you never in the first place had to do it.
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  Yeah.
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  So I'm always saying that, I always make this joke.
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  In residency, you, can do a primary closure of your socket.
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  Why?
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  Because you want to do a lot of surgeries.
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  So at the time of recovery, you tell, "I need to have, do a free gingival graft
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  because I moved my tissues." Yeah, So you gained, and it is, it's a bad joke.
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  It's a bad joke.
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  It's a very bad joke.
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  You create the problem, sorry.
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  You create the problem.
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  That's exactly what I'm say- You got it.
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  You're creating a problem because you as a student say, "I gain a
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  surgery that I can practice." Yeah.
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  It's awful to say- Yeah … but this is how I put it.
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  Got the voucher.
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  But if I see this, somebody doing this, not knowing that it was not
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  necessary, I say, "What are you doing?"
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  Because putting here in the front on a high smile line case now a free
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  gingival graft where it was not needed-
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  Yeah
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  … yeah.
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  Yeah, it, it- Then I say, "I think you created here a problem-
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  Yeah
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  … that can be s- very severe-
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  Yeah
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  … aesthetically speaking." So it is not working for you
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  because it is not necessary.
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  That's-
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  I like how you, you describe, and thank you for that.
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  One thing that is still, for me is that we live a golden age in bone
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  substitutes and biomaterial, right?
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  We have sources of vast.
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  And when we talk about long-term resorbing or, when we are approaching the alveolar
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  ridge preservation, or even at some point, if we manage to get to that
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  gap management with immediate implant placement, we're talking about what kind
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  of bone substitute ideally can we combine?
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  There will be countries where certain sources are not necessarily
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  quite seen as ideal for whatever reason, religious sometimes.
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  How do we bridge that keeping the standard of care?
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  I was very, lucky in this sense because I lived in so many different
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  continents, and I did realize always one thing, that you have the a bit
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  of like a, a availability bias, okay?
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  Meaning what?
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  Meaning I know what to do with w- with what I have available.
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  Or I will give you an answer with what I know that is available around
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  me So it's always an answer of what is the ideal and what can I do?
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  So usually when I give courses, people come to me exactly like you said, and they
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  say, "But I don't have this available."
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  Now, the answer that I will give you is the ideal answer, okay?
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  Ideally, if you have everything available It should always be a combination.
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  Okay?
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  A combination of your bone grafting material.
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  Why?
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  Because you want to use the best characteristic of each of these
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  type of bone grafting materials for your regenerative processes, okay?
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  What I mean is that you should ideally use an allograft in
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  combination with a xenograft, okay?
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  Because you want to combine the osteoinductive properties that help you
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  with the cell differentiation and the osteoconductive properties that help
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  you with the volume stability over time.
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  Because on the one hand, you want to have good mineralized bone, but on the other
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  hand, you don't want it to get resorbed.
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  Yeah.
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  And you want it not to get resorbed one year after implant placement or two years.
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  You want it to stay 10 years-
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  Going every-
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  … 15 years.
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  Yeah.
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  You,
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  go against- You want it to stay … 12 year.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  so I think that ideally, always there should be a combination when talking
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  specifically about socket management.
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  Now, obviously, we can go into a lot of discussions.
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  What happens if I do… This is why people, misunderstand sometimes, "Oh, this
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  clinician said I'm using 50/50." Okay?
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  No, I'm using 50/50 in this clinical scenario.
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  Okay?
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  So when talking about socket preservation-
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  Yep
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  … you can go, if you have a four-wall defect with a thin buccal bone,
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  you can even increase the amount a bit of an allograft, okay?
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  But you should always have the addition of a xenograft.
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  The more you go outside the envelope of bone, the more you should increase the
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  amount of a xenograft, so of the volume stable material, because it is necessary.
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  So that's is very important.
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  The thing that's very important is we're in ridge preservation, we're not in
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  guided bone reser- regeneration, we're not talking about vertical bone augmentation,
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  we're not talking about horizontal.
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  We're, specifically in one branch of alveolar ridge preservation, and
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  there the ideal is a combination of an allograft and a xenograft.
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  I like how you describe because for every choice comes with a compromise, right?
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  And then if you're saying ideally a little bit of this, a little bit of that,
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  now the bit of that could potentially come with a faster resorption, right?
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  And you mitigate-
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  Exactly
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  … you jiggle that ball in a way that you will…
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  Exactly.
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  It's funny because it, it's, you always want a bit of everything, right?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, In life- yeah … in generally, So when people ask me, I say, "A
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  bit of everything," and they were like, "Yeah, no, Larissa, you cannot
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  always have a bit of everything."
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  And I said, "No, but ideally speaking-" Okay?
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  If you want to provide the best treatment outcome- … this is
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  what I would recommend to do.
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  a bit of everything is not too much to ask.
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  Too, too-
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  Too
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  much of everything … too much of everything
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  it's… Too much of a bit of everything is too much to ask.
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  Exactly.
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  That's true.
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  Larissa, I would like to shift gears a bit.
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  We discussed this at the beginning.
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  We have this section called it's not what we think, it's what we know.
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  And evidence matters more than anything.
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  That's how implantology was shaped, because we had pioneers trying and doing
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  many things before us, and now we can use as a basal source to maybe also disagree
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  with that and go in a different direction.
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  But for you, was there any piece of evidence that it was a a- aha moment
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  for you that you said, "Wow, I, thank you for whoever did that, that opened my
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  eyes to something I never thought about, or literally made me change or reca-
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  repath my journey to what I do now"?
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  Can you think of one off the top of your head, or…?
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  So specifically when talking about socket management, I think for me, a one
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  eye-opening, piece of research, I would say, was when I was reading about, the
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  publication of Chapuis that showed that in thin phenotype or patients that have
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  a thin buccal bone, we have almost a seven times increase of our soft tissues.
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  Okay?
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  So every time we face a patient that has this type of thin
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  pheno- a thin buccal bone-
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  Yep
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  … this is being replaced, right?
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  By a amount that is se- seven times greater of soft tissue.
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  Now, I'm a periodontist, okay?
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  So I do a lot of soft tissue management, a lot of soft tissue
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  grafting, and we always talk about adding a soft tissue graft, right?
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  Yeah.
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  And we talk about adding soft tissue grafts because we want to gain thickness.
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  So this piece of evidence is that evidence that really showed me
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  or made me understand, first, how significant the thickness of the buccal
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  bone is, and secondary, that if we just understanding in our heads the
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  biological changes, we can play with them and we can work with them, okay?
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  Because like I told you, not always doing more means you're doing
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  better, but understanding more, learning more will make you better.
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  So that's what research should be doing in the first place.
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  So it showed me, Larissa, you don't need to graft.
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  You know that if there is a seven times increase, and I place my implant in the
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  correct prosthetic position, cingulum position, and I start with a thin
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  phenotype patient, I'm, I may end up with a thick phenotype without any grafting
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  or nothing just by having understood I need to preserve, then I need to mold my
• 24:36
  tissues, I need to work with my prosthetic design, I need to place it in the correct
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  position, and I will have my thickness.
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  So that changed completely my thinking, and it had a very
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  big influence in my approach.
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  Oh, a- and how did you do before?
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  And how did I do before?
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  I did… Before I believed, let's put it this way, it's not that
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  I changed necessarily something.
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  I believed that I need to do much, much more intervention in order to
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  have the peri-implant phenotype.
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  Peri-implant phenotype meaning I want two millimeter of buccal bone thickness,
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  two millimeter of mucosal thickness, two millimeter of keratinized tissue, right?
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  I, was thinking me as a surgeon- Yeah … as a clinician, I need to create it.
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  And then I started to understand, no, it will be there.
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  You just need to mold it into the direction of getting there.
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  It's win-win.
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  It's win-win, and so that was a- Mind changer
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  Aha
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  Mind-blowing.
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  Aha moment.
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  Aha moment.
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  Not always more is better.
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  Again.
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  Thickness matter, but not- Yeah.
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  Let me say, now this one point, you come, it's notorious, you come with this amazing
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  backpack of, knowledge and experience behind through our education, your work.
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  You mentioned you work with your father at some point.
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  This is great, and I'm sure, like everybody else, we have some case
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  in our heads that we think, I wish I knew then what I know now," or
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  I had the tools or the, all the elements that I have at hand now-
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  that I didn't have then.
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  And I remember that one case that I would have approached
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  from a complete different angle.
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  Do you remember what that was, and was, what was the lesson behind
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  and now you take it forward?
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  talking about this topic, I would definitely say it's not
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  comboi- combining my bone grafting material, and I explain to you why.
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  In my residency, I did my residency in the United States, and, it is
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  funny because in the United States, everything is about using allografts.
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  Yeah.
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  Allografts, allografts- Very allograft … allografts, okay?
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  Every time you mention the use of a xenograft, they're like-
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  They get
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  itchy … "I'm not, ah, no, it's not good.
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  We should not use it." Then you come to Europe, where I'm from Europe, okay?
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  And here we didn't have allografts for a long period of time.
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  So obviously it was always, xenograft, xenograft, So I went to the US, and
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  I started with ridge preservation.
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  And ridge preservation is such a procedure that in the beginning, as a resident,
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  you start to do ridge preservation.
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  So your early procedures are a lot extract the tooth, get to know the
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  bone grafting materials, you pl- place the bone grafting materials.
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  So some of these patients, I, they were maybe not compliant.
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  They didn't show up exactly four months after.
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  they came back one year later.
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  And so I performed, alveolar ridge preservation, and they came
• 27:42
  back, and I had to regraft at the time of implant placement.
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  Basically, it really resorbed in some of these cases.
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  And then I started to read, I started to learn more, and by the end of my
• 27:56
  residency, I started to incorporate, also because I'm European, but also because of
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  what I learned along the way, to y- really incorporate that xenograft, component.
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  And the patients came back, and I had a beautiful- Ridge
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  And obviously if I would go back, that's what I would not do, right?
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  And I did a lot of cases where I knew basically I did grafting and actually
• 28:26
  I didn't get the outcome that I wanted.
• 28:30
  lessons learned, use your biomaterials wisely.
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  Okay.
• 28:35
  I like that very much I'm with you 100%.
• 28:39
  I feel really sorry for clinicians that they know at some point this patient
• 28:46
  will have to receive a, a, a tooth replacement for a site, and an extraction
• 28:52
  is randomly done without thinking of the sequence of events that will come after.
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  And it's… Alveolar ridge preservation has this amazing and huge social-
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  impact on a population.
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  I wish public services will always have that as default route when
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  something's extracted, even if they don't any, don't do any matrix of
• 29:15
  the defects, but try to preserve it.
• 29:18
  There's noth- there's nothing to lose, Valerie.
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  Yes.
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  And then this patient, when it comes to the time of implantation,
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  it will be in a much more favored position, much m- less invasive, less
• 29:32
  costly, either for whoever is, is government sponsored or out of pocket.
• 29:39
  I don't see any downside.
• 29:40
  Yeah.
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  the, the problem is, from a practical mindset.
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  working a lot in private practice, let's face it, it's a, it's often
• 29:52
  a financial decision, right?
• 29:54
  We're always trying to maximize our finances, okay?
• 29:57
  Yeah.
• 29:58
  And it's, one thing that I always, when I talk to clinicians, I say,
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  "Listen, you want the best outcome for your patient, but I also
• 30:08
  understand your reality," right?
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  because I'm not… I'm educating a lot of clinicians.
• 30:14
  I'm not only educating my patients, right?
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  I'm educating a lot of clinicians.
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  So I'm always saying, "I'm with you. I understand that you want to do it,
• 30:22
  but let me explain to you how the, use of a bone grafting material at the
• 30:29
  time of extraction will, first of all, avoid you from possibly needing to
• 30:36
  regraft at a later time point, A," okay?
• 30:38
  So you used it.
• 30:39
  You don't have to use it again.
• 30:41
  Sometimes you need to regraft, okay?
• 30:44
  But the amount will be together with your implant placement, so it will be less.
• 30:50
  It doesn't require advanced grafting from you, okay?
• 30:53
  Yeah.
• 30:53
  That can lead to a sacrifice of the aesthetic outcome- Yeah … or
• 30:57
  even functional outcome.
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  Second, I say, I am sure that if you explain to your patient the
• 31:05
  benefits also of using a bone grafting material, obviously it is
• 31:11
  something that is gonna be covered, partially from the patient because
• 31:15
  it's a bone regenerative procedure.
• 31:17
  And if you explain anybody the benefits of it, right?
• 31:21
  Of you want to have an implant, you need bone.
• 31:24
  Yeah.
• 31:25
  The best time for me to do it is right now.
• 31:27
  I think that most people would agree.
• 31:30
  Yeah.
• 31:30
  They just don't know, and you think to yourself, "You know what?
• 31:34
  It will heal anyways." And that's the biggest mistake because the moment that
• 31:39
  you have this conversation, it should be from the beginning a conversation
• 31:42
  with our patients that we tell them, "Listen, we have this chance to do it.
• 31:46
  Do you want to do it?" And I guarantee you that most of the
• 31:50
  patients will answer, "Yes, doctor.
• 31:52
  Yes, of course."
• 31:53
  Yeah.
• 31:53
  " If that's what I need, if I need bone and we can place bone, of
• 31:56
  course let's do it now." So the cost-effectiveness is not really
• 32:00
  something that should play such a role.
• 32:02
  And I, in my opinion, that's the only reason that I'm seeing why we
• 32:06
  should not be performing it- Yeah
• 32:07
  at time of extraction, right?
• 32:09
  So yeah.
• 32:12
  Larissa, this was a delightful conversation.
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  I would encourage everybody who is watching us today that has an opportunity
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  to be somewhere where your courses are taking place, where they can find you?
• 32:26
  they can find me… Nowadays it's not difficult to find people.
• 32:30
  That's the good thing.
• 32:31
  If you know my name, you, on, on one platform, on one
• 32:36
  metaverse- … you will find me.
• 32:39
  Okay?
• 32:40
  they can find me online on our website of the Steigmann Institute where I'm,
• 32:45
  lecturing together with my father, and we're educating all around the world.
• 32:50
  We're having different modules on periodontology and implantology,
• 32:54
  everything about regeneration from beginning till the end.
• 32:59
  we're really around the world, giving these modules, giving these courses.
• 33:03
  and then obviously any sort of speaking engagement, social media,
• 33:10
  website.
• 33:12
  just, I think at this point, you know at this point, if you just
• 33:16
  leave your phone close by, right?
• 33:19
  And you just mention the name-
• 33:21
  somehow it will end up in your feed.
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  That's where we're at.
• 33:25
  So to find people nowadays, I don't think it's really the problem.
• 33:29
  It w- it will come to you if you have the interest to learn, to get better, to
• 33:33
  have more clinical, understanding- Yeah … as well as experience and training.
• 33:40
  it's my passion.
• 33:40
  So- Educating
• 33:42
  is my passion … D41 Steigmann Institute.
• 33:44
  Yes.
• 33:45
  Social media, we're gonna leave then the link in the description of the video, and
• 33:49
  then everywhere else where you can find
• 33:51
  Larissa.
• 33:51
  Everywhere else where you can find me.
• 33:53
  Just come up with the question and I will guide you in what to do and
• 33:57
  where to find me and how I can help.
• 33:59
  Larissa, thank you very much.
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  Thank you
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  so much.
• 34:03
  It was a delightful talk.
• 34:03
  Thank you so much.
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