Socket seal surgery: Clinical uses in implant dentistry and guided bone regeneration procedures for single tooth replacement in the esthetic zone.

Restoring failing anterior teeth with a dental implant is considered a complex treatment even with thorough biologic knowledge of the situation. The goal is to produce a result in which the labial soft tissues and the papillae remain stable over time. Treatment of the fresh extraction socket in the alveolar ridge presents a challenge in everyday clinical practice.

Implant positioning when replacing the four maxillary incisors: a platform-switched treatment option.

Patients do not view dental implants as an object of desire but seek a way to replace teeth that will be as cost-effective and minimally traumatic as possible. Nowadays, anterior fixed partial dentures can provide an esthetic result that is difficult to distinguish from the natural dentition. Consequently, any implant-supported prosthesis will be compared to the esthetic and functional standards set by conventional tooth-supported restorations.

Biomechanical repercussions of bone resorption related to biologic width: a finite element analysis of three implant-abutment configurations.

Most biomechanical studies of implant-supported restorations have not taken into account the biologic changes that occur following exposure of the implants to the oral environment. Therefore, the present finite element analysis study was designed to compare the biomechanical response of three types of implant-abutment configurations both before and after establishment of a new biologic width. The three functional units studied were: a 5-mm implant platform connected with an external hexagon to a 5-mm-diameter abutment (type 1), a 5-mm implant platform connected with an external hexagon to a 4.

The effect of interimplant distance on the height of the interimplant bone crest when using platform-switched implants.

A distance of more than 3 mm between two adjacent standard implants has been shown to preserve the interproximal bone peak, resulting in only 0.45 mm of resorption. The purpose of this study was to determine whether use of the platform-switching technique would change the bone resorption patterns between adjacent implants placed less than 3 mm apart.