Creeping Attachment Involving Dental Implants: Two Case Reports with a Two-Year Follow-Up from an Ongoing Clinical Study

• Main Authors: Armando R. Lopes Pereira Neto (Author), Bernardo Born Passoni (Author), José Moisés de Souza (Author), João Gustavo Oliveira de Souza (Author), César Augusto Magalhães Benfatti (Author), Ricardo de Souza Magini (Author), Marco Aurélio Bianchini (Author)
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• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction. This paper describes case reports where coronal growth of soft tissue on implant threads was observed after surgery for soft tissue graft. This phenomenon is known as "creeping attachment." Methods. Two patients were submitted to gingival graft procedure including subepitheli...