Tan, Wah Ching; Lang, Niklaus P; Schmidlin, K; Zwahlen, Marcel; Pjetursson, Bjarni E (2011). The effect of different implant neck configurations on soft and hard tissue healing: a randomized-controlled clinical trial. Clinical oral implants research, 22(1), pp. 14-19. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/j.1600-0501.2010.01982.x
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Objective: To compare the soft and hard tissue healing and remodeling around tissue-level implants with different neck configurations after at least 1 year of functional loading.
Material and methods: Eighteen patients with multiple missing teeth in the posterior area received two implants inserted in the same sextant. One test (T) implant with a 1.8 mm turned neck and one control (C) implant with a 2.8 mm turned neck were randomly assigned. All implants were placed transmucosally to the same sink depth of approximately 1.8 mm. Peri-apical radiographs were obtained using the paralleling technique and digitized. Two investigators blinded to the implant type-evaluated soft and hard tissue conditions at baseline, 6 months and 1 year after loading.
Results: The mean crestal bone levels and soft tissue parameters were not significantly different between T and C implants at all time points. However, T implants displayed significantly less crestal bone loss than C implants after 1 year. Moreover, a frequency analysis revealed a higher percentage (50%) of T implants with crestal bone levels 1–2 mm below the implant shoulder compared with C implants (5.6%) 1 year after loading.
Conclusion: Implants with a reduced height turned neck of 1.8 mm may, indeed, lower the crestal bone resorption and hence, may maintain higher crestal bone levels than do implants with a 2.8 mm turned neck, when sunk to the same depth. Moreover, several factors other than the vertical positioning of the moderately rough SLA surface may influence crestal bone levels after 1 year of function.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Schmidlin, Kurt, Zwahlen, Marcel |
ISSN: |
0905-7161 |
Publisher: |
Wiley-Blackwell |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Factscience Import |
Date Deposited: |
04 Oct 2013 14:11 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:01 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1111/j.1600-0501.2010.01982.x |
PubMed ID: |
21091792 |
Web of Science ID: |
000285390700003 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.2095 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/2095 (FactScience: 204279) |
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