Mark Bishara

• BSc, Doctor of Dental Surgery
• Western University

Partial extraction therapy (PET) is a set of surgical techniques that preserve a portion of the patient's own root structure to maintain blood supply derived from the periodontal ligament complex in order to maintain the periodontium and peri-implant tissues during restorative and implant therapy. PET includes the socket shield technique (SST), pro...

Partial extraction therapy (PET) is a group of surgical techniques that preserves the periodontium and peri-implant tissues during restorative and implant therapy by conserving a portion of the patient's own root structure to maintain blood supply derived from the periodontal ligament complex. PET includes the socket shield technique (SST), proxima...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most prevalent progressive neurodegenerative disorders and among the leading causes of mortality globally. AD is characterized by continued cognitive and behavioral impairments associated with memory loss, difficulty with reasoning, and language impairment. In parallel, periodontal disease (PD) is a prevalent...

Conventional approaches to full-arch implant dentistry require a verified master model created by luting together impression jigs. This process involves numerous steps and is sometimes prone to errors that require subsequent correction. A novel approach involving an extraoral scanning technique using an Imetric 4D Imaging system demonstrates an alt...

The Socket Shield Technique (SST) conserves a portion of the patient’s root structure to maintain blood supply derived from the periodontal ligament complex to preserve the periodontal and peri-implant tissues during immediate dental implant therapy. In a traditional hybrid technique, total extraction and full arch dental implant therapy often requ...

Conventional approaches to immediately loaded full arch implant therapy require a verified master model created by luting together impression jigs. This process involves numerous steps and is prone to errors that require subsequent correction. This case report presents an improvement from traditional approaches whereby a full digital approach combi...

This case report highlights the combined use of PET and dental implant therapy in the anterior maxillary esthetic zone to replace a central incisor (tooth #9) undergoing internal resorption due to past history of trauma. The adjacent central incisor (tooth #8) had been replaced with an external hex Branemark implant over 20 years prior. At 3 month...

Objectives This study aims to compare the treatment outcomes of periodontal intrabony defects by using platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) with other commonly utilized modalities. Materials and methods The eligibility criteria comprised randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the clinical outcomes of PRF with that of other modalities. Studies were cl...

PRF has been successfully utilized for the management of soft/periodontal tissues as reviewed in previous chapters. This chapter highlights its use for bone regeneration in extraction site manage-ment. Specific to socket grafting, PRF has been investigated in over 20 clinical trials when utilized either alone or in combination with a bone grafting...

The replacement of missing teeth is more complex than simply placing a dental implant and restoring it, especially when a single implant site is involved. Implants have a round cross-section, whereas natural teeth do not but instead have crestal cross-sections that vary in shape from ovoid to triangular to rectangular depending on which tooth is be...

Objectives The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to compare the use of platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) with other commonly utilized treatment modalities for root coverage procedures.Materials and methodsThe eligibility criteria comprised randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the performance of PRF with that of other modalities...

Platelet concentrates have had a long history of use in various fields of dentistry and medicine as an autogenous source of growth factors derived from human peripheral blood. While platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was proposed as a first-generation platelet concentrate over three decades ago, over the past 10 years, platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) has seen a...

Immediate implant placement often presents challenges in terms of predictably obtaining soft-tissue coverage over the implant site. While delayed implant placement offers the ability for soft tissues to grow and invade the extraction socket making their attachment around implants more predictable, immediate implant placement poses a significant ris...

Objectives: Research across many fields of medicine now points towards the clinical advantages of combining regenerative procedures with platelet-rich fibrin (PRF). This systematic review aimed to gather the extensive number of articles published to date on PRF in the dental field to better understand the clinical procedures where PRF may be utili...

The growing multidisciplinary field of tissue engineering aims to predictably regenerate, enhance or replace damaged or missing tissues for a variety of conditions caused by trauma, disease and old age. One area of research that has gained tremendous awareness in recent years is that of platelet rich fibrin (PRF) which has been utilized across a wi...