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Volume 35 , Issue 5
September/October 2015
Pages 715-723

Immediate Implant Placement and Loading of Single Implants in the Esthetic Zone: Clinical Outcome and Esthetic Evaluation in a Japanese Population

Kenji Takeshita, DDS/Stefan Vandeweghe, DDS, PhD/Valentin Vervack, DDS/Takashi Sumi, DDS, PhD/Hugo De Bruyn, DDS, PhD/Ryo Jimbo, DDS, PhD

PMID: 26357701
DOI: 10.11607/prd.2494

This study evaluated the clinical outcomes of immediately loaded maxillary anterior single implants placed in fresh extraction sockets. A patient cohort that was treated 1.5 years earlier was recalled, and 18 patients (6 men, 12 women) with 21 implants were included. Clinical photographs and periapical radiographs were taken at follow-up and baseline to determine the bone loss and change in esthetics. No marginal bone loss was detected at followup (mean bone level ± standard deviation = 0.32 ± 0.82 mm). Immediate implant placement and loading resulted in predictable clinical and esthetic outcomes, with soft and hard tissue levels remaining stable over time.

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