Platform switching implant

Abstract

For the implant to function successfully, there should be a good integration between implant, hard, and soft tissue. The implant should be able to provide esthetics, good functioning of the masticatory muscles, phonetics, and above all to minimize the crestal bone loss and hence maintaining the crestal bone levels. Over the recent years, as compared to traditional implants which resulted in bacterial accumulation, inflammatory cell infiltrate and violation of biologic width and thus bone loss and hence compromising implant integrity, platform switching implants have proved to be better option in maintain crestal bone levels by keeping the inflammatory infiltrate away from the crestal bone, allowing horizontal and vertical extension of biologic width, equalize the distribution of stress to centre of implant and ultimately can help to preserve the crestal bone levels. Keywords: Platform switching, Biologic width, Crestal bone, Inflammatory infiltrate, Traditional implants.