Graft material was Connexus and Straumann ceramic with BioGide as membrane.  I totally agree about centering the implant but again, it's a learning curve....I have no pretense to being a world class implantologist (yet) any more than being a world class endodontist (never happen).  For those who think that implants are easy – nuh uh!!!  Only problem with Bio-Oss I'm told is globular bone...I'm going to start to use DBX and Pep-Gen 15.....figure by the time I retire at 137 years of age, I may get it right. - Kendo (Implant forum)

I would not use demineralized freeze dried bone as this looses volume as it heals and theres enough in the lit to show if you want to use cadavear bone mineralized is ebtter something like dynagraft putty, or grafton putty.  this will also allow some molding of the area when placed. Pepgen-P15 can be used in socket preservation and a good way is to mix the granules with some of the flow to make a stiffer putty and place that.

Instead of crown lenghtening you could do tooth extrusion - Gerardo

Would this not be best off with a combination of extrusion/forced eruption followed by crown lengthening once a successful RCT had been completed? - Bob

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Patient newsletters serve a specific purpose.  They are a special communication with people who have already accepted your practice as a place to receive dental care.  More than 80% of marketing and sales dollars in industry are spent convincing prospective customers (patients) that you are a viable choice for the product or service they are seeking.  With the patient newsletter you have an audience who already accepts that premise, so you can be more specific about certain types of services. 

You are already their specialist in the field of dentistry.  They told you that by their having already received dental services from us in the past.  The purpose of the newsletter is to remind patients that they are considered a patient of your practice, by you.  In addition, you want to convey specific information to someone who is more likely to read it than a complete stranger.  (Mass mailings are not read usually by people who do not know you in this age of overwhelming junk mail.  More than 95% are destroyed without being read, and a good return is 2%. We do a little different sort of mailing, so we get a much better return. Still, it is not as effective as a patient newsletter at generating quick increased business.) Information you would include in a newsletter would be maximizing insurance benefits, returning for exams and prophys, referring new patients, cosmetic options, personal items about family and staff, tidbits of interest in dental health, etc. 

A well-done newsletter does not have to be long or expensive.  In our experience, the most effective newsletters are professionally produced 8.5 x 11 tri-folds in full color with pictures of staff, families, smile makeovers, etc.  They should be quarterly to insure that the patient is contacted at least six times per year. (Add one or two recall contacts and a birthday card.)  Expensive multi-page newsletters are too expensive to produce frequently so they are not for   the return they get.  Frankly, we find there is almost always filler added that is self congratulatory in most longer newsletters…that they are really for the dentist to brag rather than the patient’s need to know more about what the practice can do for them.

Your patients are like all human beings in the world.  Their favorite station is WII-FM (What's in it for me.)  That may sound cynical, but it is true and ignoring it is silly.  They may have a passing interest in the dentist's awards and association memberships, but it is only relevant for referrals, normally.  They don’t need to know all that to choose you as their dentist. The already made that decision. And, referrals are more likely to come from happy patients who feel part of the practice than from patients who thinks their dentist is bragging on himself/herself.  Contact the patient 6 to 7 times per year.  Remember WII-FM, and provide excellent care.  This will produce a referral rate of 2% to 3% of active patients per month.  If there are 2,000 patients, this will produce about 50, and that is enough to build a million dollar dental practice.