Implants In Esthetic Zone

Esthetic implant therapy is an advanced treatment modality in today ‘s field of implantology aiming to achieve an ideal esthetic and functional treatment outcome within the alveolar ridge or the edentulous spaces. Esthetic implant therapy has become an integral part of modern implant dentistry because it complements the overall results of oral implantology. Significant advances have been introduced recently including novel techniques to develop or regenerate implant recipient sites by stimulating both hard and soft tissues and to reproduce healthy peri-implant tissue contours that resist mechanical forces and masticatory trauma. Despite the advances and the success seen in many clinicians practice there is insufficient scientific support regarding the overall success and longevity of esthetic implant techniques in well-controlled long-term studies. The advances in esthetic implant therapy and soft tissue and hard tissue regeneration are more the author‘s observations than standard protocols that are used in clinicians daily practice. Therefore a standard surgical and prosthetic protocol for esthetic implant therapy is mandatory. Esthetic implant therapy demands evidence-based publications and fewer case reports to establish a standard of care for every clinician. All efforts should be made to standardize methodologies for every clinical situation and then test those procedures against evidence-based protocols. Past advances resulted from patient’s unwillingness to accept dental restoration with metallic margins or unmatched. These challenges some of which have been extremely difficult to address have benefited from original plastic periodontal surgical techniques that are now used routinely to correct various soft tissue defects such as gingival recession mucogingival defects and imbalanced gingival contours. This book is a compilation based of the available literature of surgical techniques and prosthetic options that are used in the treatment for implants in the esthetic zone.