Стоматология

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Self-Treatment with Dental Implants

Osama Abu-Hammad *,Mahmoud Al Omiri ,Mohammad Hammad,Ahmad Abdelaziz Mahmoud ,Najla Dar-Odeh ,Ahmad Kutkut

Background: Many self-treatment dental procedures have been reported in the literature including extractions and fillings.

Findings: This case report describes the clinical procedure of dental implantation and subsequent prosthetic treatment that a dentist performed to him starting from the local anesthetic injection and finishing with cementation of a fixed prosthesis.

Conclusions: Ethical and safety guidelines and standards of related procedures of the dental profession need reviewing to take in consideration controversial aspects of self-treatment.