Caroliene Meijndert

Contents Chapter 1 General introduction 7 Chapter 2 Single implants in the aesthetic region preceded by local ridge augmentation: a 10-year randomized controlled trial 19 Chapter 3 Performance of bone level implants with conical connections in the anterior maxilla: a 5-year prospective cohort study 41 Chapter 4 Bone level tapered implants in the maxillary aesthetic zone: a one-year prospective case series in healed sites 59 Chapter 5 Alveolar ridge preservation in defect sockets in the maxillary aesthetic zone followed by single-tooth bone level tapered implants with immediate provisionalization: a one-year prospective case series 79 Chapter 6 Immediate placement and restoration of a new tapered implant system in the aesthetic region: a report of three cases 99 Chapter 7 The effect of implant-abutment connections on peri- implant bone level around single implants in the aesthetic zone: a systematic review and a meta- analysis 115 Chapter 8 General discussion and conclusions 143 Summary 160 Samenvatting 166 Dankwoord 172