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Alterations in the morphological features of the bone. Osseous defects may be subcategorized as follows.  

Situated or occurring around a tooth; pertaining to the periodontium. To the area around a tooth. Encompassing a tooth; related to the periodontium.  

Erosion of the teeth due to chronic gastric regurgitation of stomach acid.  

Inflammation of the soft tissues that surround an osseointegrated implant that results in bone loss.  

Location of the receding marginal periimplant tissues apical to the prosthesis–implant interface.  

Keratinized or nonkeratinized mucosa around an oral implant.  

A disease in which the presence of inflammation is confined to the mucosa surrounding a dental implant with no signs of loss of supporting bone.  

Collective term for inflammatory reactions in the soft and/or hard tissues surrounding dental implants.  

Nonkeratinized epithelium lining the mucosal crevice.  

Around the implant.