Mats Böse

As every practitioner knows: malpositioned dental implants lead to compromised restorations and complications on the long run. It is common consensus, that a correct three-dimensional implant position positively influences long-term clinical outcomes. Thereby, prosthetically driven implant planning and installation allows to restore both, function and esthetics while aiming for a reduction of technical and biological complications. Dental implants should be sufficiently surrounded by hard and soft tissues, which in certain cases may only be possible with additional augmentation procedures. To allow for accurate transfer from the planned implant position to the patient´s mouth, static and dynamic computer-assisted implant surgeries can be applied. Both methods show higher accuracy than the freehand technique in terms of final implant position. Therefore, considering the current technologies, should malpositioned dental implants not belong to the past?

Dr. Mats Böse received his DDS degree in June 2016 at Westfälische Wilhelms-University of Münster in Germany. Before joining the Department of Prosthodontics, Geriatric Dentistry and Craniomandibular Disorders at Charité – University Medicine Berlin in 2019, he served in two private dental practices in Essen and Berlin in Germany with main focusses of activity on dental implantology. In 2021, he completed the European Association of Dental Implantologists’ (BDIZ EDI) specialty training and received his doctoral degree (Dr. med. dent.) on the topic of root-analogue implants at Charité. Subsequently, in March 2023, the German Society of Prosthodontics and Biomaterials e.V. (DGPro) certified him as a qualified specialist in prosthodontics. His main research topics involve static and dynamic computer-assisted implant surgeries.