CLINICAL CASE

1 – Baseline occlusal view: situation before removal of tooth #20.
2 – Tooth removal and extraction socket management with Gesitlich Bio-Oss® and Geistlich Bio-Gide®.
3 – Geistlich Fibro-Gide® was trimmed to the defect size, to augment the buccal and crestal soft-tissue area of the ridge.
4 – Geistlich Fibro-Gide® in place, augmenting buccal and crestal area of tooth #20 and buccal in the edentulous area tooth #21 to tooth #19.
5 – Immediate provisionalization of the implants.
6 – 3 weeks post-surgery: occlusal view of augmented area with created emergence profile.
7 – 3 weeks post-surgery: buccal view of augmented area with created emergence profile.
8 – Provisional reconstruction 6 weeks post-surgery.
9 – Final restoration 2.5 years post-surgery: soft-tissue thickness remains stable over time.