title: Advanced surgical techniques to enhance implant success in the maxilla.
abstract: While less emphasis has traditionally been placed on aesthetics in order to focus on successful osseointegration, increased success rates provided by contemporary endosseous root-form dental implants have improved postoperative peri-implant hard and soft tissue structures. The criteria for the evaluation of implant success should, therefore, include lack of pain, mobility, radiolucency, bone loss, infection, or paresthesia, as well as acceptability and stable aesthetics. This article discusses surgical means to preserve or restore hard and soft tissues around dental implants to achieve ideal and predictable outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Periodontics, University of Washington School of Dentistry, Seattle, WA 98195-7444, USA.
authors.forename: Ralf F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Schuler
authors.forename: Frank A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D000540:Alveolar Ridge Augmentation; D003238:Connective Tissue / Q000637:transplantation; D003758:Dental Implantation, Endosseous / Q000379:methods*; D015921:Dental Implants; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported; D003779:Denture Design; D003830:Denture, Partial, Fixed; D005893:Gingivoplasty; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor; D008297:Male; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013516:Oral Surgical Procedures, Preprosthetic / Q000379:methods*; D020390:Tooth Socket / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D015921:Dental Implants