A 70-year-old patient presented to the dental practice for an emergency exam after experiencing pain around the peri-implant tissues of implant #5. On evaluation, sulcular pus and buccal edematous ...

Periapical radiography is superior to cone-beam CT for detecting peri-implant bone defects, according to a study in Clinical Oral Implants Research (March 27, 2012) The researchers from King's College ...

One of the key factors of success in a dental implant is the condition of the periodontium around the implant. A higher long-term success rate of dental implants requires sufficient and healthy ...

Bone implants often fail to fully integrate with surrounding tissue, limiting their effectiveness in regeneration. A natural but often overlooked cellular process could hold the key to better outcomes ...

Tohoku University scientists in Japan have made a scaffold that supports the growth of new bone in large jaw defects in mice. Their findings, published in the journal PNAS Nexus, bring scientists one ...