Today, practitioners have to meet growing patient demand for aesthetic tooth replacements that remain healthy in the long term, often involving immediate implant placement and loading. In the following article, a case is presented in which the patient’s aesthetic zone was restored using a two-piece zirconia implant system which has been an integral part of the author’s clinical armamentar- ium for over fifteen years. In clinical studies, this implant system has shown high survival rates, stable marginal bone levels and a favourable soft-tissue reaction.1,2 Addi- tionally, in an independent nine-year study—the first long- term study on two-piece zirconia implants—it demon- strated healthy and stable hard and soft tissue, excellent aesthetics with a visible increase in keratinised gingiva volume around all implants investigated, no fractures, and no peri-implantitis.3 It is therefore ideally suited for the indication described...
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