OBJECTIVE Successful dental implant therapy in the maxillary anterior dentition requires meticulous attention to surgical and prosthodontic measures. CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS Proper diagnosis, extraction technique, implant selection, and placement significantly impact outcomes. Respect of hard and soft tissue physiology following tooth loss and implant placement requires specific steps be take...

OBJECTIVE To illustrate problems observed with low-porosity expanded polytetrafluoroethylene soft tissue implants and to describe a new dual-porosity implant, the technique for insertion, and this author's preliminary experience. METHOD A review of 175 pieces of SoftForm (Collagen Corporation, Palo Alto, Calif) placed in 69 patients over 3 years was performed. Between October 1, 1997, and Sep...

Objective: The purpose of this review was to examine how tissue architecture, surgical procedures, implant components and prosthetic factors contribute collectively toesthetic success in the maxillary anterior and premolar region (esthetic zone).Materials and methods: Pubmed, Embase and the Cochrane electronic databases weresearched for prospective human studies that investigate sin...

Dental implant materials are required to enable good apposition of bone and soft tissues. They must show sufficient resistance to chemical, physical and biological stress in the oral cavity to achieve good long-term outcomes. A critical issue is the apposition of the soft tissues, as they have provided a quasi-physiological closure of oral cavity. The present experiment was performed to study t...

BACKGROUND Research interest on immediate placement of dental implants has shifted from implant survival toward optimal preservation of soft and hard tissues. The aim of this study is to systematically assess the condition of implant survival, peri-implant hard and soft tissue changes, esthetic outcome, and patient satisfaction of immediately placed single-tooth implants in the esthetic zone. ...

Implant rehabilitation is a daily practice in dentistry, and patients often have heightened expectations regarding both the functional aesthetic outcome. Implant–abutment connection (IAC) involved long-term quality of rehabilitation. The use one-piece implants for fixing dentures may prevent mechanical biological implication implant–abutment interface, resulting better hard soft tissue maintena...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical outcome of a surgical technique with tissue preservation for a wide bone-anchored hearing implant concerning postoperative complications, skin reactions, implant loss, and implant stability. STUDY DESIGN Consecutive, prospective case series. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Twenty-four adult patients with normal skin quality were enrolled. ...