BACKGROUND Accumulating evidence suggests that alveolar crestal bone resorption occurs as a result of the microgap that is present between the implant-abutment interface in dental implants. The objective of this longitudinal radiographic study was to determine whether the size of the interface or the microgap between the implant and abutment influences the amount of crestal bone loss in unloade...

The level of bone crest surrounding the implant is of utmost significance to determine osseointegrated implant success, as preservation of marginal bone height is highly important for long-term dental implant survival. Various approaches have been described in the literature to prevent the crestal bone loss, including platform switching, non-submerged approach, scalloped implants, implant desig...

OBJECTIVE to compare the soft and hard tissue healing and remodeling around tissue-level implants with different neck configurations after at least 1 year of functional loading. MATERIAL AND METHODS eighteen patients with multiple missing teeth in the posterior area received two implants inserted in the same sextant. One test (T) implant with a 1.8 mm turned neck and one control (C) implant w...

Interimplant papillae are critical to achieving esthetic implant-supported restorations in the maxillary esthetic zone. Stable papillary anatomy, however, depends upon a stable volume of underlying crestal bone for support. Multiple studies have documented a critical interimplant distance of 3 mm, under which crestal bone resorption occurs. The current preclinical proof-of-principle canine stud...

The aim of this study was to conduct a literature review on the potential benefits with the use of Morse taper dental implant connections associated with small diameter platform switching abutments. A Medline bibliographical search (from 1961 to 2014) was carried out. The following search items were explored: "Bone loss and platform switching," "bone loss and implant-abutment joint," "bone reso...

Achieving the stability of bone tissue in field dental implants is still most urgent and completely unsolved problem implantological practice. Modern ideas about biological principles structure functioning tissues periimplant zone are one significant factors ensuring crestal tissue. The soft-tissue component that forms basis complex at implant-suprastructure interface plays a key role protectin...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Load transfer mechanisms and possible failure of osseointegrated implants are affected by implant shape, geometrical and mechanical properties of the site of placement, as well as crestal bone resorption. Suitable estimation of such effects allows for correct design of implant features. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of implant diameter and...

. AbstrAct The purpose of this clinical trial was to study the influence of platform-switching concept on crestal bone changes at non-submerged straight and inclined implants retaining mandibular overdentures. Eight patients received 2 implants one straight and the other inclined in the canine region of the mandible. Mandibular overdentures were retained using spheroflex abutment attachments, w...

PURPOSE Several long-term clinical studies have shown a mean marginal bone loss around dental implants of 1.5 to 2 mm in the first year after prosthetic restoration. Currently, concepts to avoid bone remodeling around dental implants have been developed. The use of prosthetic abutments with reduced width in relation to the implant diameter (platform switching) seems to have the greatest potenti...