Curated news from the periodontal and implant literature
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Periodontitis is well established as a systemic disease driver, associated with cardiovascular risk, diabetes, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Its relationship with skeletal muscle, however, had remained largely unexplor...
Read more →Matos CD, Pacheco MCD, Ferraz MA et al.
Dental implants and natural teeth occupy the same oral environment yet behave as distinct biological entities. This study set out to quantify those differences in clinically healthy conditions, comparing probing depth, k...
Read more →Nguyen GH, Le KVP, Le LN et al.
Severe posterior maxillary atrophy remains one of the most demanding scenarios in implant surgery. When residual bone height drops to 4 mm or less, lateral window sinus augmentation becomes not just an option but a neces...
Read more →Goyal K, Sahoo S, Gupta AD et al.
Alveolar ridge resorption following tooth loss remains one of the central challenges in implant rehabilitation. When residual ridge width is insufficient, clinicians must choose between bone expansion and ridge split tec...
Read more →Zhang G, Cui W, Wu H et al.
Periodontitis remains one of the most clinically challenging conditions in oral medicine: driven by polymicrobial dysbiosis, it sustains a chronic inflammatory cascade that ultimately destroys the periodontal ligament, c...
Read more →Eraydin-Tufek N, Ozcan G, Isler SC
Peri-implantitis is one of the most clinically demanding conditions in implant dentistry. Despite a growing body of literature, there is still no consensus on which nonsurgical decontamination protocol offers the best ou...
Read more →Yoshida K, Heller S, Mousa N et al.
Statins have long been recognized for their pleiotropic effects beyond lipid lowering — including anti-inflammatory, angiogenic, and osteogenic properties. The clinical question driving this systematic review and meta-an...
Read more →Zeng X, Chen H, Jiang Y et al.
Flap surgery in the anterior maxilla carries a predictable collateral cost: resorption of the thin labial alveolar wall (LAW) of teeth adjacent to the surgical site. Even when the implant site heals uneventfully, the nei...
Read more →JiBin, Atsuta I, Narimatsu I et al.
Patients on antiresorptive therapy — bisphosphonates, denosumab — represent a genuine clinical dilemma when implant placement is considered. The risk of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) is real, and no...
Read more →Zhou Y, Wang Y, He Y et al.
Periodontitis and chronic kidney disease (CKD) share a bidirectional inflammatory relationship that worsens systemic and oral outcomes alike. Despite growing epidemiological evidence linking the two conditions, high-qual...
Read more →Mainetti G, Bengazi F, Mainetti T et al.
Alveolar ridge preservation remains one of the central challenges in implant dentistry: extraction alone triggers a well-documented cascade of dimensional changes — predominantly buccal bone resorption — that can comprom...
Read more →Abbinante A, Barile G, Antonacci A et al.
Periodontitis is fundamentally a dysbiotic disease: the shift from a balanced subgingival microbiome toward a pathogen-dominated community drives the destructive host response that defines the condition. Controlling this...
Read more →Pesce P, Bagnasco F, de Angelis N et al.
Vitamin D has long been recognized for its immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties, making it a plausible adjunct in the management of periodontal disease. This systematic review by Pesce and colleagues address...
Read more →Spînu A, Manole F, Burcea A et al.
Advanced peri-implantitis in the esthetic zone represents one of the most demanding clinical scenarios in implant dentistry: bone loss is often extensive, soft tissue architecture is compromised, and the stakes — both fu...
Read more →Cao GF, Dai A, Lin RJ et al.
Advanced periodontitis — Stage III and IV — remains one of the most demanding conditions in clinical periodontics, where the choice between non-surgical periodontal therapy (NSPT) and surgical periodontal therapy (SPT) i...
Read more →Sbricoli L, Feltracco G, Cavallin F et al.
The relationship between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and periodontal disease is well established — T2DM acts as a grade modifier in periodontitis, amplifying the inflammatory response and impairing tissue healing. Wh...
Read more →Monje A, Pons R, Aparicio C et al.
Peri-implantitis management remains one of the most clinically demanding challenges in implant dentistry. A central unresolved question concerns the role of implantoplasty — mechanical surface decontamination through car...
Read more →Khayat R
Peri-implantitis remains one of the most challenging complications in implant dentistry, and the search for effective adjunctive therapies continues to drive clinical research. This systematic review by Khayat examines w...
Read more →Yang L, Wang X, Li C et al.
Achieving adequate keratinized tissue width (KTW) around implants in the posterior mandible remains one of the more demanding soft tissue challenges in implantology. The free gingival graft (FGG) is the gold standard for...
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