Long-term success of dental implants depends not just on bone integration but also on the health of surrounding gum tissue.

Peri-implant tissue quality has typically been evaluated in a binary fashion -- either an implant is failing or it's not. But a method that focuses on peri-implant tissue stability and detects early ...

Keratinised Tissue: Oral mucosa that has a protective layer of keratin, crucial for peri‐implant tissue stability. Connective Tissue Graft (CTG): A soft tissue graft used to augment deficient ...

They conducted the current network meta-analysis to compare the effects of various dental abutment materials when used in implant-supported single crowns on abutment survival, marginal bone loss, and ...

A recent study published in Clinical and Experimental Dental Research suggests that flapless immediate implant placement ...

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Currently, soft-tissue implants fall into two general categories, she says. "You can either inject something and once it's in the body do nothing about it, or you can create an external implant ...