Immediate Implant Placement and Provisionalization in the Esthetic Zone Revisited: The Marginal Migration Concept (MMC)

Valavanis, Konstantinos; Vergoullis, Ioannis; Papastamos, Michalis; Salama, Henry

doi:10.3390/app10248944

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Immediate Implant Placement and Provisionalization in the Esthetic Zone Revisited: The Marginal Migration Concept (MMC)

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Konstantinos Valavanis

^1,2,*,

Ioannis Vergoullis

^3,4,

Michalis Papastamos

⁵ and

Henry Salama

^6,7

¹

Oral Surgery Department, University of Naples Federico II, 80138 Napoli, Italy

²

Private Practice, 15123 Athens, Greece

³

Periodontics Department, School of Dentistry, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA 70119, USA

⁴

Private Practice, 85100 Rhodes, Greece

⁵

Private Dental Lab, 17343 Athens, Greece

⁶

School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

⁷

Private Practice, Atlanta, GA 30339, USA

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(24), 8944; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10248944

Submission received: 22 November 2020 / Revised: 9 December 2020 / Accepted: 10 December 2020 / Published: 15 December 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Material Science, Implants, and Peri-Implant Tissues)

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Abstract

Immediate implant placement and provisionalization in the esthetic zone is a desirable approach that presents several advantages but at the same time embosses several risk factors that can lead to sever esthetic complications. The purpose of this article was to propose a new protocol that could allow for the maintenance and even the improvement of the hard and soft tissue topography, leading to superior esthetic results. The proposed protocol, when certain criteria are met, could be applied even for cases where the extraction socket morphology is currently proposed as a contra-indication for immediate implant placement and provisionalization.

Keywords: extraction socket; immediate implant; provisional; esthetic zone

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Valavanis, K.; Vergoullis, I.; Papastamos, M.; Salama, H. Immediate Implant Placement and Provisionalization in the Esthetic Zone Revisited: The Marginal Migration Concept (MMC). Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 8944. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10248944

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Valavanis K, Vergoullis I, Papastamos M, Salama H. Immediate Implant Placement and Provisionalization in the Esthetic Zone Revisited: The Marginal Migration Concept (MMC). Applied Sciences. 2020; 10(24):8944. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10248944

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Valavanis, Konstantinos, Ioannis Vergoullis, Michalis Papastamos, and Henry Salama. 2020. "Immediate Implant Placement and Provisionalization in the Esthetic Zone Revisited: The Marginal Migration Concept (MMC)" Applied Sciences 10, no. 24: 8944. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10248944

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Valavanis, K., Vergoullis, I., Papastamos, M., & Salama, H. (2020). Immediate Implant Placement and Provisionalization in the Esthetic Zone Revisited: The Marginal Migration Concept (MMC). Applied Sciences, 10(24), 8944. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10248944

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