Dr. Algirdas Puišys stresses the importance of vertical and horizontal soft tissue thickness for maintenance of the crestal bone dimensions essential for long-term implant success. In addition, he describes the use of soft tissues substitutes such as mucoderm® for GBR procedures to achieve both a sufficient ridge width and at the same time sufficient soft tissue thickness.

Dr. Puišys is specialist in periodontology at the Vilnius Implantology Center, Lithuania.

mucoderm® is a 3D regenerative tissue graft of porcine dermis resembling the native structure of the human dermis, designed to serve as a safe alternative to autologous free gingival- or connective tissue grafts (FGG, CTG).