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Esthetic Outcomes Following Immediate and Early Implant Placement in the Anterior Maxilla—A Systematic Review by Stephen Chen; Daniel Buser is a Dentistry article available to read on EtoBox.
## Purpose: The objectives of this systematic review are (1) to quantitatively estimate the esthetic outcomes of implants placed in postextraction sites, and (2) to evaluate the influence of simultaneous bone augmentation procedures on these outcomes. ## Materials and methods: Electronic and manual searches of the dental literature were performed to collect information on esthetic outcomes based on objective criteria with implants placed after extraction of maxillary anterior and premolar teeth. all levels of evidence were accepted (case series studies required a minimum of 5 cases). ## Results: From 1,686 titles, 114 full-text articles were evaluated and 50 records included for data extraction. the included studies reported on single-tooth implants adjacent to natural teeth, with no studies on multiple missing teeth identified (6 randomized controlled trials, 6 cohort studies, 5 cross-sectional studies, and 33 case series studies). considerable heterogeneity in study design was found. a meta-analysis of controlled studies was not possible. the available evidence suggests that esthetic outcomes, determined by esthetic indices (predominantly the pink esthetic score) and positional c
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- Author
- Stephen Chen; Daniel Buser
- Publisher
- Quintessence Publishing
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Dentistry (Health Sciences)