Five-year outcomes of a randomized clinical trial comparing bone-level implants with either submerged or transmucosal healing.

Juan Flores-GuillénCarmen Álvarez-NovoaGermán BarbieriConchita Martín Mariano Sanz

Published in: Journal of clinical periodontology (2017)

Bone-level implants with submerged or transmucosal healing protocols demonstrated similar outcomes after 5 years. Both protocols yielded optimal clinical and radiographic results when bone-level implants were placed in non-molar positions for single tooth replacement.

Keyphrases

soft tissue
bone mineral density
bone loss
bone regeneration
postmenopausal women
adipose tissue
skeletal muscle