Treat and Restore Compromised Sockets Immediately with the Novel Vestibular Socket Therapy : A Revolution in Immediate Implant Placement

Abstract

Immediate implant placement is now-a-days one of the promising modalities for replacing missing teeth as it helps restore form and function for a patient within a short period of time. However, presence of active infection within such freshly extracted sockets could jeopardize the success of aforesaid therapy. Although, a variety of techniques have been studied till date, there still remains a need for a treatment modality that could restore freshly extracted infected sockets with inadequate hardtissues. Since presence of adequate hard and soft tissues surrounding an implant is essential for prognosis of dental implant. A novel treatment modality named as Vestibular Socket Therapy (VST) has gained popularity to conventional two-staged approach forrestoring infected sockets. VST could be considered as an effective alternative to placement of dental implants within inadequate hard and soft tissues along with infected freshly extracted sockets.