The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the effect of distance between the implant and the bone on the resultant bone thickness adjacent to the implant in place of a broken down tooth that happens to be bounded by two natural teeth.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
Does the horizontal implant position (and hence the gap between the implant and the socket wall i.e. jumping gap) affect the resultant labial bone thickness? Will it affect the quality of soft tissue, esthetics and patient satisfaction?
Participants will have an implant placed using a surgical guide with a jumping gap either less than 2 mm or equal or more than 2 mm and will be asked to visit the clinic once every 3 months for checkups, radiographs, and readings.
Patients with a bounded single non-restorable upper tooth in the anterior maxilla (15-25) FDI (El Ebiary et al., 2023b)
Patients with an age range of 21 to 65 years old (Levine et al., 2022)
Patients with good oral hygiene with BoP ≤ 10 % (Chapple et al., 2018)
Compliant patients willing to follow up to one year.
The presence of acute/active infection related to the non-restorable tooth (Block et al., 2009) cited in (Soegiantho et al., 2023)
Presence of labial bone defect as fenestration/dehiscence (Crespi et al., 2008) cited in (Soegiantho et al., 2023)
Large cyst or pathological lesion related to the tooth (Tallarico et al., 2016-2017) cited in (Soegiantho et al., 2023); (Morton, Wismeijer, Chen, Hamilton, Wittneben, Casentini, Gonzaga, Lazarin, Martin, Molinero-Mourelle, et al., 2023)
History of radiation to the maxilla (Cannizzaro et al., 2010) cited in (Soegiantho et al., 2023)