A technique for managing and accurate registration of periimplant soft tissues.
This article describes an indirect impression technique that accurately captures the soft tissue contours around an implant-supported provisional restoration. Customized impression copings are used to transfer the soft tissue architecture created by the interim prosthesis. The definitive restoration is shaped like the provisional restoration, maintaining the emergence profile and optimizing esthetics.
Ntounis
Athanasios
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Department of Graduate Periodontology, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007, USA. thanosdounis@gmail.com
Petropoulou
Aikaterini
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D000044:Dental Abutments; D003758:Dental Implantation, Endosseous / Q000379:methods*; D003760:Dental Impression Materials; D003761:Dental Impression Technique; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design / Q000379:methods*; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported; D003794:Dental Restoration, Temporary; D006801:Humans; D007575:Jaw, Edentulous / Q000534:rehabilitation; D010347:Patient Care Planning
D003760:Dental Impression Materials