For the placement of successful dental implant there should be a good biologic connection between implant and bone. Implant placement in a healthy alveolar bone results in long term success rate and Osseointegration. The conventional technique for implant placement includes elevation of mucoperiosteal flap after crestal incision, which facilitated visualisation of the anatomical structures that have to be cared during implant placement whereas in a flapless procedure, a dental implant is installed through the mucosal tissues without reflecting a flap. The primary reasons to choose the flapless technique are to minimize the possibility of postoperative peri-implant tissue loss and to overcome the challenge of soft tissue management during or after surgery. Implants were placed in 14 patients with a single edentulous site either with conventional flap technique or flapless technique consists of 7 implants in each technique. All the patients were evaluated for soft and hard tissue parameters such as peri-implant PD and crestal bone loss radiographically up to 6 months follow up.

Navneet Kaur is currently working as faculty member as Associate Professor in the department of Periodontics and Oral Implantology at National Dental College and Hospital, Derabassi Punjab, India. She has presented many papers in National and State conferences and has more than 50 publications in various National as well as International Journals and her research interest score is 91.2 with 105 citation score. She has been serving as an editorial board member of several reputed journals. She has been awarded with a title of “Cureus Laureate” in 2021 and 2022 for their extraordinary contributions to Cureus Journal of Medical Science. She also delivered a guest lecture in world dental conference (Virtual) in 2020. She got a second prize in 3rd International conference on dentistry and oral health in 2021. She was also delivered a key note presentation in 3rd Online International Conference on Clinical dentistry & Oral Health” 2022(Virtual).