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A technique for managing and accurate registration of periimplant soft tissues
Athanasios Ntounis1, Aikaterini Petropoulou
1Department of Graduate Periodontology, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007, USA. thanosdounis@gmail.com
The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry
|September 30, 2010
Abstract:
This article describes an indirect impression technique that accurately captures the soft tissue contours around an implant-supported provisional restoration. Customized impression copings are used to transfer the soft tissue architecture created by the interim prosthesis. The definitive restoration is shaped like the provisional restoration, maintaining the emergence profile and optimizing esthetics.