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Implants Made Simple — 148 episodes

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STOP Guessing Implant Stability (Do This Instead!)

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The TRUTH About “Rescuing” Bad Implants

3

What I No Longer Do in Implant Surgery (And WHY!)

4

Are You BURNING Bone During Dental Implant Placement?

5

The TRUTH Behind ‘Perfectly Good’ Teeth

6

Why Titanium STILL Wins in Implant Dentistry

7

The Case for Immediate Implants (That No One Explains)!

8

Why 3D Imaging STILL Gets Crestal Bone Loss Wrong

9

Before You Diagnose Bone Loss…WATCH THIS!

10

Stop “Managing” Periodontal Disease. REMOVE It!

11

Why Your Anesthetic Injections HURT (And How to Fix It!)

12

The PROBLEM With “Fully Guided” Dental Implants

13

The Metric Most Dentists Use to Judge Themselves Is WRONG!

14

DON'T Make this Lighting Mistake in Your Surgical Field!

15

The Hidden FLAW in Hybrid Ti-Base Restorations (and How to Fix It!)

16

Why Most Guided Surgery FAILS in the Lab (And How SI Guided Was Built to Fix It!)

17

If Your Surgical Guides Fail, THIS Is Why

18

How to STOP Breaking Root Tips

19

The TRUTH About Health Histories and Implant Success

20

If Your Technique NEVER Changes, That’s a Problem

21

We NEED to Talk About Polished Implant Collars

22

This Is How I Plan EVERY Edentulous All-on-X Case

23

Choosing the Right Healing Abutment: STOP Guessing!

24

What My Bad Haircut Teaches Us About Implant FAILURE

25

The #1 Thing DESTROYING Your Implant Healing

26

DON'T Save the Tooth, Choose What’s Best for the Patient

27

New Dentist? Here’s What NO ONE Tells You Your First Year

28

Should You WORRY About the Nasopalatine Nerve in All-on-X?

29

Game-Changer or Gimmick? Smart Shape Healers REVIEW!

30

WHY You Implants Drift Over Time (and How to Fight It)

31

2 Implant Rules You Can’t Ignore (and WHY They Matter)

32

STOP Overpaying for Custom Abutments!

33

The Hidden Weakness of All-on-4 (and How to FIX IT!)

34

How to NAIL Primary Stability Every Time (5-Thread Rule)

35

4 Things That Will RUIN Your Healing After Surgery

36

If You’re NOT Taking Photos, You’re Falling BEHIND

37

The Bell Curve Trap in Dentistry: Stop Settling for Average

38

The SECRET to Implant Success

39

Why You Should NEVER Reuse Abutments

40

FP1 vs FP3 Explained: What Dentists NEED to Know

41

Zirconia Restorations, Titanium Implants: Is That a DOUBLE STANDARD?

42

Even Surgeons Have TOUGH Days. Here's Mine.

43

The Truth About Irrigation: It’s NOT Thermal Necrosis

44

STOP Chasing Money. START Helping People.

45

The SECRET to Long-Term Implant Success? It’s All in the Tissue.

46

I Gave Up Engineering… to Become a DENTIST?!

47

Future All-on-X? Place The Implant RIGHT the First Time!

48

Photography is THE Secret to Better Dentistry!

49

Socket Sealing CHANGED My Implant Esthetics!

50

I Accidentally Made a Snoopy… in My OWN Dental Office!

51

Do Shortie Dental Implants REALLY Work?

52

Why Mini Implants Are a BAD IDEA For Your Practice

53

Revolutionize Your Dental Practice with 3D Printing in 2025!

54

WHAT'S BEST For Your Patients: Implant Overdenture or Screw-Retained All-On-X?

55

What Makes BRITEGUMS So Effective?

56

DENTAL IMPLANTS - Posterior Implants Need Love Too!

57

Why Selection MATTERS in Dentistry!

58

Is One Abutment For ALL Implants A Recipe For Disaster?

59

BriteGums Revolutionizes Your Practice with THIS Game Changing Cosmetic Procedure?

60

ESTHETIC ZONE Teeth Sectioning SECRETS Revealed!

61

Focus on PEOPLE Not Just Teeth in Dentistry!

62

Which Sinus Augmentation Method: Crestal Bump or Lateral Window?

63

Question EVERYTHING in Dentistry!

64

MASTER Gap Grafting for Dental Implants: Material Selection & Technique Explained

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Ditch Good for GREAT Dental Implants with Advanced Technology

66

Britegums IS Revolutionary Gum Depigmentation for YOUR Practice!

67

I Place GUIDED Implants in EVEN the Toughest Cases!

68

Ignoring Marketing MYTHS for Clinical FACTS in Dentistry?

69

MASTER Atraumatic Dental Extraction with These Pro Tips!

70

Ditch the Dentistry Echo Chamber and THINK FOR YOURSELF!

71

DEEP or SHALLOW Conical Seal: Which Dental Implant is BEST?

72

How to Present FULL MOUTH Implant Treatment with Confidence

73

Can You Be a Dental Implant Surgeon Without Hand Skills?

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Can You REALLY Grow Bone for Dental Implants?

75

Why You SHOULDN'T Place Dental Implants at Bone Level?

76

IS THIS The BEST Conical Dental Implant?

77

IS Socket Shielding REALLY Worth It?

78

What's the BEST Bone Grafting Material for Dental Implants?

79

Do The Walls of Your Dental Implant Help Your Clinical Practice?

80

Why I'll NEVER Do A Socket Shield On My Dental Implants

81

Your Dental Implant Lab is Probably RIGHT.

82

Your Dental Implant X-Rays ARE NOT Measuring Crestal Bone Loss.

83

You don't HAVE to Gap Graft Dental Implants....But You SHOULD (and Here's Why!)

84

I DEFINITELY don’t need Zygomatic or Pterygoidal Implants in my Practice

85

I Placed My Own Dental Implant....Here's What I Learned.

86

How to Evaluate Dental Research Like a PRO - 2024 Guide

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Immediate Implants Are Better Than Delayed Ones

88

Titanium Implants are the Superior Choice

89

Why I Don't Need Photogrammetry in My Practice

90

Smile Engineer Answers Your Comments!

91

Is Torque a Good Measure of Dental Implant Stability?

92

Exparel: A Game-Changing Non-Opioid Alternative for Oral Surgery

93

Leadership Secrets Every Dentist Needs to Know

94

Control the Emergence Profile of your Implants with Stock Abutments

95

How to Place Implants into Fresh Extraction Sites

96

Don't Settle for Freehand Dental Implants

97

Overcoming Implant Failures: Dental Implants are a Team Sport

98

Freehand Dental Implant Surgery is for Dummies

99

Why I Rarely Use Custom Abutments

100

Should You Buy A Dental Implant Surgical Robot?

101

How to Remove A Dental Implant

102

The Science Behind Laser-Lok® Microchannels

103

How Many Implants Am I going to Get to Place?

104

No Patient Actually Wants an Overdenture

105

Removing Biomechanics Complications and Peri-implantitis from Your Practice

106

The Science Behind Crestal Bone Loss, Microgaps & Implant Platforms

107

These DIAMOND dusted forceps will make extractions EASIER

108

Checking out Dental Instruments with Hu Friedy

109

Mechanical integration can help you get to finals in just 2 HOURS!

110

This implant thread pattern gives you mechanical integration IMMEDIATELY after placement!

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The Future of Implant Dentistry with Dr. Curry Leavitt

112

Every dentist needs to work on their OWN FAMILY

113

You dental implant patients DON'T WANT teeth. They want THIS

114

2-implant OVERDENTURE—When you should use a 2-implant overdenture (and when you SHOULDN'T)

115

I DON'T CONTROL for gingival thickness at my implant sites

116

These are the ONLY indications for custom abutments...

117

This is how I prevent ti base decementation (It's 100% RELIABLE!)

118

Dental implants are evolving rapidly. Are YOU already behind?

119

Placing implants like this is TWICE AS FAST for the patient

120

How much SOFT TISSUE management do you really need to do?

121

New dentists, THIS is how you get into IMPLANTS!

122

This is why I DON'T USE zirconia implants

123

Cupping isn't a problem.

124

This isn't bone loss...

125

I'm NOT (just) a dentist–how I got into implants

126

Deep Morse Taper? Here's why that's a BAD IDEA!

127

I only use ONE implant. Here's why.

128

Insertion torque is a TERRIBLE metric for judging primary stability

129

Is it BONE LOSS or just wound healing? 🤔

130

If you're just using these, you're FAILING your patients!

131

How much torque is TOO MUCH?? (Or too little)

132

You're drilling TOO SLOW when placing implants!

133

Should you focus on SINGLE IMPLANTS or full arch cases?

134

I should place my implants WHERE?!? (This is made up, right?)

135

THIS is the biggest misconception about dental implants

136

This is the BEST first dental implant to place

137

This will save you $$$$$$$ on your taxes (for dentists!)

138

This was the STRANGEST implant case I've ever seen...

139

Thermal Necrosis DOESN'T EXIST, either

140

Pressure Necrosis DOESN'T EXIST

141

Are LONG dental implants really BETTER??

142

Did your patient's implant fail years later? It's still YOUR FAULT!

143

Are you placing PROBLEM IMPLANTS without knowing it? (Featuring The Classy Dr. Monica)

144

This is what it's like to do your FIRST FULL ARCH case

145

My patients DON'T get peri-implantitis (and neither should yours!). THIS is my biggest complication

146

Dentists: If you're not using THIS implant, you're using one that's WORSE!

147

Your dental lab NEEDS to know this (and if you're a dentist, YOU need to know this!)

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This simple device changes dental implants FOREVER!