What is it about?
A case report with clinical recommendations that can improve the life-span of an implant and patient comfort during brushing. Increasing soft tissue dimensions around an implant can increase implant survival. The recommendations include: 1) Thickness (keratinised mucosa) of ≥2 mm 2) Depth/space apical to the implant margin (vestibular depth) of ≥4 mm.
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Why is it important?
Increasing soft tissue dimensions around an implant can increase implant survival. The recommendations can help clinicians plan and augment the soft tissues around implants.
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The use of a gum graft, in this case a free gingival graft, is one technique that is predicable to improve the soft tissues that support implants.
Matthew Morris
Dalhousie University
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This page is a summary of: An apically positioned flap and free gingival graft around an implant, Dental Update, July 2024, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/denu.2024.51.7.476.
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