So let's talk about the three different stages, the progression of this disease, and that will set us up for what we're gonna talk about further into the podcast episode, which is non-surgical and surgical intervention in order to, uh, preclude this disease from getting to the point where the implant will fail and it would have to be removed.

The implant health, I believe, can be designated into three different stages in terms of clinical presentation and overall prognosis.

But the first stage is the, is the stage of dental implants that we wish all our patients would have, and that's a healthy, maintained dental implant.

The second stage is the earliest stage of disease, and that's referred to as peri-implant mucositis or peri-mucositis, or sometimes implant peri-mucositis.

Those are all synonyms with what I refer to as peri-implant mucositis.

This is generally a soft tissue disease.

It is readily reversible with improved oral hygiene and hygiene care.

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