Ultrasound-based Imaging to Detect Early Changes of Hard and Soft Tissue Around Immediately Placed Implants With or Without Soft Tissue Augmentation

Exclusion Criteria

• •patients taking long-term (more than 3 months) medications affecting bone metabolism
• •generalized untreated periodontitis with greater than of 30% of sites with greater than 5mm pocket depths and bleeding upon probing with a dental probe
• •medical contraindications for having a surgical procedure (i.e., ASA Status of III, patient with a severe systemic disease that is not life-threatening; ASA Status of IV, a patient with a severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life).
• •history of radiotherapy in the head and neck region
• •heavy smoker (greater than 10 cigarettes per day)
• •pregnancy
• •gingival recession before extraction in relation to the contralateral tooth.