Predicting bone and soft tissue alterations of immediate implant sites in the esthetic zone using clinical parameters.

Background: Immediate implantation is generally a predictable treatment, but sometimes there are significant tissue alterations at the surgical site which compromise clinical outcomes.

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the association between tissue alterations and different clinical parameters in esthetic areas following immediate implant placement and provisionalization.

Materials And Methods: Clinical parameters were measured at 36 non-grafted immediate implant sites enrolled in a randomized controlled trial.

Immediate implant placement and provisionalization in the aesthetic zone using a flapless or a flap-involving approach: a randomized controlled trial.

Aim: We conducted a randomized controlled trial to compare the effect of flapless (FLS) or flap-involving (F) immediate placement and provisionalization of single-tooth implants in the aesthetic zone.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-nine patients were randomized following extraction of a non-restorable tooth to a FLS or F group. All implants were immediately placed and provisionalized.

The Effect of Subepithelial Connective Tissue Graft Placement on Esthetic Outcomes After Immediate Implant Placement: Systematic Review.

Background: Immediate implantation, despite many advantages, carries a risk of gingival recession, papilla loss, collapse of ridge contour, and other esthetic complications. Soft tissue graft placement combined with immediate implantation may be used to reduce these concerns. This review aims to systematically analyze clinical esthetic outcomes of the immediate implant combined with soft tissue graft (IMITG).

Survival analysis and other clinical outcomes of immediate implant placement in sites with periapical lesions: systematic review.

Purpose: Immediate implantation has become one of the therapeutic options for replacement of a hopeless tooth. In the case of a tooth with a periapical lesion, this approach remains controversial. The aims of this article were to systematically review the evidence on immediate implants in sites with periapical lesions with reference to: (1) survival rates, (2) changes in crestal bone levels and marginal tissues, (3) complication rates, and (4) comparison of clinical outcomes with other implant treatments.

Alterations of the bone dimension following immediate implant placement into extraction socket: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aim: This systematic review was aimed at analysing bone dimensional alterations within the first year following immediate implant placement.

Materials And Methods: The electronic search was conducted using MEDLINE (PubMed), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) and EMBASE from January 1980 to October 2013. Quality assessment of selected articles was performed using Cochrane Collaboration's tool or Newcastle-Ottawa scale according to the design of each study.

Serum antibody responses to periodontal microbiota in chronic and aggressive periodontitis: a postulate revisited.

Background: The authors revisited the 1999 International Workshop postulate of robust serum antibody responses to infecting agents in localized aggressive periodontitis (LAgP) and weak responses in generalized aggressive periodontitis (GAgP). Antibody responses were further examined in localized and generalized chronic periodontitis (LCP and GCP).

Methods: The study includes 119 patients (60 males and 59 females, aged 11 to 76 years), 18 with LAgP, 37 with GAgP, 37 with LCP, and 27 with GCP.

Maxillary sinus elevation by lateral window approach: evolution of technology and technique.

Context: The maxillary sinus elevation procedure has become an important pre-prosthetic surgical procedure for the creation of bone volume in the edentulous posterior maxilla for the placement of dental implants. Research and clinical experience over the past 30 years has increased the predictability of this procedure as well as reduced patient morbidity.

Evidence Acquisition: Data on grafting materials and implant survival rates comes from 10 published evidence-based reviews that include all relevant published data from 1980 to 2012.