Peri‐implant health
Abstract
Objective
The aim is to define clinical and histologic characteristics of peri‐implant tissues in health and describe the mucosa–implant interface.
Importance
An understanding of the characteristics of healthy peri‐implant tissues facilitates the recognition of disease (i.e., departure from health).
Findings
The healthy peri‐implant mucosa is, at the microscopic level, comprised of a core of connective tissue covered by either a keratinized (masticatory mucosa) or non‐keratinized epithelium (lining mucosa). The peri‐implant mucosa averages about 3 to 4 mm high, and presents with an epithelium (about 2 mm long) facing the implant surface. Small clusters of inflammatory cells are usually present in the connective tissue lateral to the barrier epithelium. Most of the intrabony part of the implant appears to be in contact with mineralized bone (about 60%), while the remaining portion faces bone marrow, vascular structures, or fibrous tissue. During healing following implant installation, bone modeling occurs that may result in some reduction of the marginal bone level.
Conclusions
The characteristics of the peri‐implant tissues in health are properly identified in the literature, including tissue dimensions and composition. Deviation from the features of health may be used by the clinician (and researcher) to identify disease, including peri‐implant mucositis and peri‐implantitis.
Serial posts:
- Peri‐implant health
- Introduction: Peri‐implant health
- Peri‐implant mucosa: peri-implant health
- Morphogenesis of the mucosal adhesion : peri-implant health
- Dimension of the peri-implant mucosa : peri-implant health
- Peri-implant tissues in clinical health : peri-implant health
- Bone sounding : peri-implant health
- Keratinized mucosa : peri-implant health
- Bone tissue around implants
- Major differences between healthy peri-implant & periodontal tissue
- Kesarasan peri-implant
- Pendahuluan: kesarasan peri‐implant
- Mukosa peri‐implant: kesarasan peri-implant
- Morfogenesis pelekatan mukosa : kesarasan peri-implant
- Dimensi mukosa peri-implant : peri-implant saras
- Jaringan peri-implant dalam kesarasan klinis : kesarasan peri-implant
- Pengukuran tulang : kesarasan peri-implant
- Mukosa berkeratin : peri-implant saras
- Jaringan tulang di sekeliling implant
- Perbedaan utama antara peri-implant saras & jaringan periodontal