Abstract:
This lecture includes a historical review of dental implant techniques and materials dating from 1982 to 2024, a 42 year experience. Special attention is paid to immediate maxillary and mandibular molar implants over an 11-year period of time from 2007 to 2018, citing over 800 consecutive cases in his office-based practice. In particular, the focus includes use of the palatal root space for maxillary molar implant anchorage. This is in opposition to socket preservation and socket grafting, with titanium being proven as the ultimate socket presrevative material.
Biography:
Dr. Traub graduated from Creighton University School of Dentistry in 1978 following which he completed a 3-year Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He then enjoyed a full-time solo practice in his home town of Albuquerque, New Mexico USA until the summer of 2023. More recently, he has accepted a teaching position at Creighton University Dental School as a clinical professor in the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery department. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Oral Biology (AIOB), still practices surgery part-time in Albuquerque, and is becoming certified by the International Academy of Independent Medical Legal Evaluators, being the first in his field in that organization. He has placed dental implants since 1982 and still does major facial traumatic reconstructive surgery.
