Fonseca, Manrique; Haro-Adanez, Mireia; Pieralli, Stefano; Bresavscek, Miha; Yilmaz, Burak; Att, Wael (2022). Short versus regular-length implants to rehabilitate partially edentulous mandible: a 2-year prospective split-mouth clinical study. Journal of oral implantology, 48(4), pp. 277-284. American Association of Implant Dentistry 10.1563/aaid-joi-D-20-00315
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Many studies have evaluated short implants (SIs); however, it is still unclear whether SIs are reliable and can be used to simplify surgical and prosthetic protocols with successful clinical outcomes. The aim of this non-random, conveniently sampled, prospective, split-mouth study was to compare the clinical outcomes when short (SI) (≤8 mm) or regular-length implants (RIs) (>10 mm) were used in the posterior mandible two years after the delivery of splinted reconstructions. Each participant (N=10) received four implants in the posterior mandible; two SIs were placed on one side, and two RIs were placed contra-laterally. Implants were restored with splinted, screw-retained, porcelain-fused-to-metal reconstructions. Survival and success rates, peri-implant marginal bone level (MBL), and soft tissue parameters were evaluated. No participant drop-outs were recorded. Both types of implants showed 100% success and survival rates. From prosthetic delivery to 24 months post-loading, bone remineralization of +0.40 mm for the SIs and +0.36 mm for the RIs was observed without statistically significant differences in MBL between the implant types (p=0.993). SIs showed significantly higher (p=0.001) clinical attachment level (CAL) and probing depth (PD) values. Chipping occurred in one situation in the RI group resulting in a 97.5% prosthetic success rate, which was 100% for the SIs. After 2 years, SIs with splinted reconstructions showed comparable clinical outcomes to those of RIs. Further long-term controlled clinical studies with balanced experimental designs evaluating random and larger populations are required to corroborate these findings.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Preventive, Restorative and Pediatric Dentistry 04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Reconstructive Dentistry and Gerodontology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Fonseca Escalante, Manrique, Yilmaz, Burak |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
0160-6972 |
Publisher: |
American Association of Implant Dentistry |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Lena Augé |
Date Deposited: |
07 Jun 2023 16:30 |
Last Modified: |
07 Jun 2023 16:30 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1563/aaid-joi-D-20-00315 |
PubMed ID: |
34287628 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
clinical outcome complications dental implants short implants split-mouth success survival |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/163650 |
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