ITI® dental implants are available with two bone‐anchoring surfaces, a titanium plasma‐sprayed
(TPS) surface, and a recently introduced sandblasted and acid‐etched (SLA) surface. …

The use of endosseous dental implants as transmucosal devices necessitates the successful
integration of three different tissues: bone, connective tissue, and epithelium. So far, …

Current implant placement utilizes both nonsubmerged and submerged techniques. However,
the implications of the location of a rough/smooth implant interface as well as the location …

Inflammation and bone loss are hallmarks of periodontal disease (PD). The question is how
the former leads to the latter. Accumulated evidence demonstrates that PD involves …

Gingival esthetics around natural teeth is based upon a constant vertical dimension of healthy
periodontal soft tissues, the Biologic Width. When placing endosseous implants, however, …

Background: Endosseous implants can be placed according to a non‐submerged or
submerged approach and in 1‐ or 2‐piece configurations. Recently, it was shown that peri‐implant …

An implant-abutment interface at the alveolar bone crest is associated with sustained peri-implant
inflammation; however, whether magnitude of inflammation is proportionally …

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the interface shear strength of unloaded
titanium implants with a sandblasted and acid‐etched (SLA) surface in the maxilla of miniature …

Background: Today, implants are placed using both non‐submerged and submerged
approaches, and in 1‐and 2‐piece configurations. Previous work has demonstrated that peri‐…

… e-mail: Cochran/uthscsa.edu Thus, the use of non-submerged, one-piece implants allow for
… different surfaces used in this study have been reported elsewhere (Cochran et al. 1998). …