{"id":919,"date":"2026-05-28T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/?post_type=article&#038;p=919"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:53:02","slug":"the-significance-of-keratinized-periimplant-mucosa-2206","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/article\/the-significance-of-keratinized-periimplant-mucosa-2206\/","title":{"rendered":"The Significance of Keratinized Peri-Implant Mucosa"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"article-type":[5],"forum-tag":[16,255],"class_list":["post-919","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article-type-feature-article","forum-tag-dental-implant","forum-tag-keratinized-mucosa"],"acf":{"feature_topic":1458,"authors":[1188,1190],"read_time":"10 min","publication_date":"20161114","doi":"10.3290\/iti.fi.45680","excerpt":"Keratinized mucosa belongs to the masticatory mucosa, while non-keratinizing mucosa belongs to the lining mucosa. 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(2012) Is there a need for keratinized mucosa around implants to maintain health and tissue stability? <em>Clinical Oral Implants Research<\/em> <strong>23 Suppl 6<\/strong>: 136-146.<\/p>","endnote":"OWN - ITI International Team for Implantology\r\n CI - ITI International Team for Implantology\r\n JT - Forum Implantologicum\r\n DP - 2016\r\n LA - en\r\n TI - The Significance of Keratinized Peri-Implant Mucosa\r\nOWN - ITI International Team for Implantology\r\n AU - Ioannidis A.\r\n AU - Lang N.\r\nAID - 10.3290\/iti.fi.45680[doi]\r\n AB - Abstract"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/919\/revisions\/1878"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forum-author\/1190"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forum-author\/1188"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature-topic\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"forum-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forum-tag?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}