Dental implants have become an indispensable established therapy in dentistry in order to replace missing teeth in different clinical situations. Success rates of 82,9% after 16 years follow-up have been reported. Under care and attention of indications, anatomical and intra-individual limiting factors, insertion of dental implants seems to represent a "safe" treatment option. Nevertheless, in the last decades increasing evidence raised on the presence of peri-implant inflammations representing one of the most frequent complications affecting both the surrounding soft and hard tissues which...

Les implants dentaires sont devenus une thérapie établie indispensable en dentisterie afin de remplacer les dents manquantes dans différentes situations cliniques. Des taux de réussite de 82,9% après 16 ans de suivi ont été rapportés. En tenant compte des indications, des facteurs limitatifs anatomiques et intra-individuels, l'insertion d'implants dentaires semble représenter une option thérapeutique "sûre". Néanmoins, au cours des dernières décennies, de plus en plus de preuves ont été apportées sur la présence d'inflammations péri-implantaires représentant l'une des...

Healing of wounds is a classical example of combination of regeneration and repair. This is accomplished in one of the following two ways. This is defined as healing of a wound, which has the following characteristics. Clean & uninfected. Surgically incised. Without much loss of cells & tissue. Edges of wound that are approximated by surgical sutures.Oral hygiene is a major importance for one's day life. Oral hygiene should not be neglected, if it is neglected it will cause problems in future. Oral infections are one of the most recurring and common problems for all the people in the world...

Bone is a hard, strong calcified connective tissue, which can withstand tensile forces of 12500 psi, and compressible forces of 7000psi. Its shape and volume changes markedly in response to functional and physiologic influences. Bone is composed of two types of osseous tissues. The difference between cortical and cancellous bone lies in the size and the number of spaces within. Bone marrow fills the spaces in the cancellous bone. Yellow fatty marrow predominates in the larger cavities of the long bones, while the red marrow is found in flat bones and at the articular ends of long bones. The...