DOI: 10.11607/ijp.4008, PubMed-ID: 25191894Seiten: 477-479, Sprache: EnglischZuiderveld, Elise G. / Hartog, Laurens den / Vissink, Arjan / Raghoebar, Gerry M. / Meijer, Henny J. A.
This study assessed whether buccopalatal implant position, biotype, platform switching, and pre-implant bone augmentation affects the level of the midbuccal mucosa (MBM). Ninety patients with a single-tooth implant in the esthetic zone were included. The level of the MBM was measured on photographs taken 1 year after crown placement. The factors analyzed only explained 22% of the level of the MBM. The more an implant was placed to the buccal, the more the MBM was positioned apically. A comparable phenomenon was observed in cases with a thick biotype and cases that underwent pre-implant bone augmentation. Platform switching did not affect the level of the MBM.