Implant Interface: Tissue to Implant Contact: (a)fibrous integration, interposition of healthy dense collagenous tissue between implant and bone. (b)osseointegration, implies that a contact is established without interposition of non-bone tissue between normal remodeled bone and an implant entailing a sustained transfer and distribution of load from the implant to and within the bone tissue.

 

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Implant Interface: Tissue to Implant Contact: (a)fibrous integration, interposition of healthy dense collagenous tissue between implant and bone. (b)osseointegration, implies that a contact is established with . . . View Full Definition

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Oral Implant: A device or inert substance, biologic or alloplastic, that is surgically inserted into soft or hard tissues, to be used for functional or cosmetic purposes.

Peri-Implantitis: General term defining disease process surrounding and/or involving implanted foreign materials. Can be traumatic, ulcerative, resorptive, exfoliative.