The delivery of care for patients missing one or all of their teeth very often requires implants to restore function, esthetics, hard and soft tissue contours, speech, and intraoral health. The delayed occlusal loading protocol, either 1- or 2-stage approach, has been evaluated for more than 30 years by a number of clinical settings and situations. However, in some patient conditions, the delayed healing process can cause psychological, social, and/or functional problems. A full range of treatment options relative to the initial hard and soft tissue healing is available. Immediate restoration of a patient after implant surgery is one of these alternatives. A benefit/risk ratio must be assessed for each patient condition to ascertain whether immediate occlusal loading is a worthwhile alternative. The greater the benefit and/or the lower the risk, the more likely immediate loading is to be considered. Present book is a very useful tool for the students, practitioners, academicians and all those who are concerned with dental implants as the best choice for a missing dentition.

The book is a critical examination and appraisal of the status, methodology and likely future trends of the emerging sub-discipline of Governing Development within the broader discipline of political science, leading to the application of Good Governance in the administration and development of the newly emerged nations during the later half of the twentieth century. From the Contents: Bureaucracy, development and governance: The conceptual evolution of a sub-discipline R.B. Jain, Public administration, bureaucracy and development in the Third World Vidu Soni, Public Administration to Good Governance in Developing Countries Good governance: Select world perspectives Renu Khator, Good Governance: An American Perspective in the Global Context Hartmut Elsenhans, Good governance as a means of taming the rent in newly industrialised countries: A German political economy perspective Micheal Pinto-Duschinsky, The Bad Government of Good Government: Some Problems of Civil Society Organizations Promoting Good Governance O.P. Dwivedi, In the matter of good governance: A non-Western perspective Lenneal J. Henderson, Good governance and public administration: A citizen capacity-building model for Latin America. Keshav C. Sharma, Towards Good Governance in Africa: Governing development: Status, methodology, and future trends R.B. Jain, In conclusion: Governing development the emerging sub-discipline in political science: Status, methodology and future trends