John Giordani
New York, NY (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
Giordani Dental Implants Inc.
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Location:
New York
Industry:
Healthcare
Year Founded:
2003
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Description:
The GDI UNO is the small-diameter implant of choice for the long-term treatment of missing maxillary laterals and mandibular incisors. It allows you to treat spaces that cannot be handled with conventional two-piece implants.
Maximum Strength - Minimum Profile. Its one-piece, titanium alloy construction provides maximum strength, while its small diameter allows placement in areas of limited tooth-to-tooth spacing. The clinically-proven modified Ultra-Flat-thread form have been shown to maximize bone-to-implant contact and
osseointegration. Minimal Surgery - Maximum Esthetics. Because GDI UNO implants are placed using a single-stage protocol, the soft tissue benefits from less trauma than typical two-stage protocols. With the included tissue punch, placement can be accomplished without a flap, further lessening the surgical trauma. Immediate provisionalization allows soft tissue concerns to be addressed starting at the time of surgical placement. Maximum Simplicity. Thanks to its one-piece construction, there are no additional components that must be purchased. If required, modification to the abutment portion is done using a carbide prepping bur.
Giordani Dental Implants (GDI), advantages: extremely easy insertion and use
In most cases, the insertion of a GDI implant takes no more than a few minutes. Abutment parallelism is achieved even faster. Their preparation using regular drills is no different from the preparation of natural abutments, except for the execution time which is shorter. Taking impressions requires no special materials or treatment; if there is a total lack of natural abutments, of course, even simple impressions in alginate can be used. The same applies to trying out metals that do not require a high level of accuracy but a bit of skill.
Simple and very rapid surgery
The insertion of a GDI implant is normally performed without an incision. Surgery on tissues is limited to a simple hole, less than two millimeters in diameter, performed straight through the mucosa. It allows the insertion of the implant which is self-threading, and thus does not require any other intervention. Normally, at the end of the intervention, the mucosa shows no signs of bleeding, and in most cases, post-surgery consequences are reduced to the discomfort of having a mouth full of fixed teeth again.
Low costs
Costs are very low since the surgical equipment is limited to the implant itself, and the instruments needed to insert it are also few. Laboratory costs are the same as for regular prostheses, since there is no additional intervention.
Recovery of existing prostheses
This is a peculiar and interesting feature of this technique, unthinkable in osseointegration processes. It is possible to recover existing prostheses because after the implant is inserted, the abutment at the surface can always be repositioned and prepared, so that it can be introduced in a pre-existing coping. This means that a problematic tooth, whether natural or artificial, can always be replaced without having to consider prostheses and, consequently, without having to hope that problems will get resolved by themselves, as they can even be anticipated and prevented most easily and firmly, with no further financial efforts for the clinic and patient. If there is a great discrepancy between the coping and the head of the new implant, this can always be solved with the help of a simple telescopic crown, either cast or made of resin, if there is not enough time to produce it in the laboratory.
Mounting of temporary prosthesis during the same surgical intervention
This is an important feature of the method, allowing the masticatory system to immediately resume its social role. At the end of implant insertion, which, as mentioned before, is a simple, fast, and painless intervention, a temporary prosthesis is mounted. It is attached directly to the abutments at the surface, which are perfectly parallel and prepared and already capable of supporting a temporary prosthesis allowing the patient to speak, laugh and socialize normally, and not just eat observing certain restrictions.
Mounting the final prosthesis
The mounting of the final prosthesis is performed in an even shorter time than that required for mounting prostheses on natural abutments. Before mounting the temporary prosthesis, just after the implant abutments have been made parallel and prepared, impressions are taken for the final prosthesis. Its production starts immediately and only takes as long as it is strictly necessary. This is a regular lab time, only slightly shorter than that needed for prostheses on natural abutments due to a lesser technical difficulty in designing and executing them.
Ease of reintervention
The only serious risk for a newly inserted implant is its movement subsequent to local trauma caused by either an occlusion error in the temporary prosthesis or by the patient themselves not following instructions, or intervening “out of curiosity”. This causes the implant to move after the impressions have already been taken. So what can be done? It is not a huge problem. In most cases, it is sufficient to gently pull the temporary prosthesis and to fix it better. Its characteristics have to meet resistance criteria first and foremost; in the worst case scenario, it is removed. But the procedure does not end there and a few weeks later it can be reintroduced in the same orifice (the bone remains threaded) and in the exact same position, since the same implant is used without affecting the prosthesis in progress, already finished or maybe even mounted. Anyway, given the strict supervision that the patient is subjected to in terms of post-surgical follow-up, this risk is minimal, and after the first two months, practically non-existent.
Exceptional versatility of use
This technique has practically no application limits other than the operator’s personal ones. Its use continually generates experience and these limits expand revealing solutions that are impossible for other techniques without the price of extreme surgical reconstruction. It can also be said that while buried implants require that the bone adapt to them, GDI implants adapt to existing bone.
The patience, enthusiasm and endurance of patients never run out
This is a fundamental advantage because it allows the patient to maintain a position of friendly gratitude, with all the positive consequences implied. But this is only possible due to the fact that the patient does not suffer, feels no discomfort, and within a few weeks is pleased to see it all finished!