Implant Treatment for All: Full-Arch PFMs for an Edentulous Patient with Advanced Bone Resorption by Paresh B. Patel, DMD In the decades since his pivotal discovery of tive emotional and social consequences. For these reasons, osseointegration, practitioners of implant implants should be placed as soon as possible following therapy have strived to fulfill Dr. Per-Ingvar Brånemark’s tooth loss or extraction in order to mitigate the regression lofty goal of restoring the teeth and, by extension, the qual- of the hard and soft tissues.1 ity of life of every single patient suffering from edentulism. Amid technological advancements and the rise of prostheti- Once osseointegration is complete, edentulous patients can cally driven treatment planning, the population of patients be made whole again with a removable or fixed implant who can be treated with this life-changing mode of therapy restoration, the latter of which optimizes prosthetic stabil- expands ever further. Innovations in prosthe