The purpose of this study is to compare how well our research participants heal with two different kind of healing abutments used. One is pre-fabricated, meaning it is made to fit anyone, and the other is customized to fit the subject specifically. Much of what will occur is 'standard of care' meaning it is part of a subject's typical dental treatment and the research team wants to just look at the data for this research study, as well.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
48
A customized healing abutment will be used on subjects in this study as part of their implant healing process.
A pre-fabricated (pre- made) healing abutment will be used on subjects in this study as part of their implant healing process.
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
RECRUITINGSoft tissue healing progress
Clinical Evaluation of Soft Tissue Healing; the clinician will perform intraoral examination on tissue color, contour, signs of inflammation, presence of keratinized tissue and soft tissue integration around the healing abutment. These are all visual observations and will be recorded as Yes/No.
Time frame: 3 months
Functional outcome of gingival appearance
gingival appearance- reported through visual observation of presence of gingiva and color of implant and healing abutment. This observation is just on general healing progress related to this outcome, nothing is measured on a scale.
Time frame: 3 months
Functional outcome of implant esthetic
Implant esthetics - reported through visual observation of presence of gingiva and color of implant and healing abutment. This observation is just on general healing progress related to this outcome, nothing is measured on a scale.
Time frame: 3 months
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