Ultrashort sintered porous-surfaced dental implants used to replace posterior teeth.

Background: This retrospective multicenter report provides data from a case series of partially edentulous subjects treated with an ultrashort (5-mm-long) sintered porous-surfaced (SPS) dental implant.

Methods: The implant used had a tapered truncated cone shape, was 5-mm long, and had a maximal coronal diameter of 5 mm. Twenty-six implants were placed in 20 subjects to replace primarily maxillary and mandibular molar teeth.

Oral focal mucinosis: report of 15 cases and review of the literature.

Aims: To describe 15 cases of oral focal mucinosis (OFM) and compare these to previously reported cases.

Methods: Cases diagnosed as OFM in the period 1981-2003-were reviewed. Clinical information provided at the time of submission of each specimen was retrieved and supplemented by additional clinical details provided by the respective clinician at the time of compilation of this paper.