Andre Chen

Posterior maxillary implant rehabilitation often requires augmentation due to ridge collapse and soft tissue deficiency. This case shows how supracrestal ceramic implant placement, combined with soft tissue repositioning, can be a minimally invasive alternative when grafting is not accepted. If the implant remains within the four bony walls, stable peri-implant tissues and functional outcomes may be achieved without extensive regeneration.

A Prosthetically Driven Concept and the Importance of Three-Dimensional Accuracy The Dream of the Supracrestal Implant Four approaches. Four levels of precision. This morning I woke up with one of those thoughts that doesn’t come from reading a paper… It comes from living implant dentistry. I slept well.Body Battery: 100% .Sleep Score: 95% . And maybe because of that… I dreamed about implants. Not an abstract dream.A surgical dream.A prosthetic dream. And the message was simple, but powerful:...

Some days the body breaks… but the surgery still teaches. A posterior implant case where restraint, soft tissue intelligence, and keratinized mucosa repositioning replaced unnecessary reconstruction. Because true mastery is simple: you tailor the technique to the patient — not the patient to the technique.