Clinical improvements in soft tissue health occur with zinc-coated healing abutments, indicating a potential benefit for dental procedures.
Within the limitations of the study, the zinc-coated healing abutments improved early peri-implant soft tissue health clinically and immunologically. However, further studies are still needed to exclude the interference of soft tissue phenotype and confirm the relationship between microbial and clinical findings.
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