With the recent development of mechanically improved and clinically versatile zirconia implants, their clinical use over the past several years has become more widespread globally. Although zirconia implants currently rep- resent a niche market, their popularity worldwide is grow- ing rapidly.1 Studies show that zirconia implants offer many advantages over metal implants, including aesthetics, greatly reduced plaque retention and incidence of peri-implantitis, lower accumulation of surface biofilm compared with titanium implants, outstanding biocompatibility, and a degree of osseointegration and soft- tissue response that is superior to that of titanium dental implants.2–5 ...
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