Peri-implant mucogingival deficiencies, characterized by a shallow vestibule and insufficient attached mucosa (AM), can compromise plaque control and maintenance. Periosteal fenestration offers a graft-free alternative but remains limited by technique sensitivity and restricted surgical access....
✦ Clinical Takeaway ✦
No actionable change for audiologists; this article is a dental/oral surgery technique report with no relevance to audiology practice.
✦ Why It Matters ✦
This article has no relevance to the audiology field and appears to have been included in error.
✦ Key Points ✦
- 01Describes a diode laser-assisted periosteal fenestration technique for dental implants.
- 02Targets mucogingival (gum tissue) deficiencies around implants.
- 03Clinical technique report only — no controlled trial data presented.
- 04No audiology or hearing-related content.
- 05Likely included in this dataset due to a content-feed indexing error.
✦ Research metadata ✦
- PMID
- 42059441
- DOI
- 10.1002/cap.70068.
- Journal
- Clinical Advances in Periodontics
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 4
- Population
- Dental implant patients with mucogingival deficiencies
- Intervention
- Diode laser-assisted periosteal fenestration for peri-implant vestibuloplasty
Primary outcomes
Clinical feasibility of the described surgical technique