Marco Degidi

TL;DR: To be functionally useful, oral implants have to pierce the gingiva or oral mucosa and enter the oral cavity, thus establishing a transmucosal connection between the external environment and the inner parts of the body.

TL;DR: The data revealed that the tissues around titanium healing caps underwent a higher rate of inflammation-associated processes, most probably correlated to the higher inflammation processes observed in these tissues.

TL;DR: All biomaterials examined resulted in being biocompatible and seemed to improve new bone formation in maxillary sinus lift, and the data are very encouraging because of the high number of successfully treated patients and the good quality of bone found in the retrieved specimens.

TL;DR: Immediate functional and non-functional loading seems to be a technique that gives satisfactory results in selected cases of implants subjected to immediate functional loading and to immediate non- functional loading in various anatomical configurations.

TL;DR: A 7-year clinical and radiographic follow-up of 93 immediately loaded dental implants in human patients shows that these immediately loaded implants have remained osseointegrated for a long period, and point to the possibility of using the immediate loading technique in selected and well-informed cases.