Comparative osseointegration of hydrophobic tissue-level tapered implants-A preclinical in vivo study.

Imber, Jean-Claude; Khandanpour, Azita; Roccuzzo, Andrea; Irani, Delia R; Bosshardt, Dieter D; Sculean, Anton; Pippenger, Benjamin E (2024). Comparative osseointegration of hydrophobic tissue-level tapered implants-A preclinical in vivo study. (In Press). Clinical oral implants research Wiley 10.1111/clr.14318

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PURPOSE

To histometrically compare the osseointegration and crestal bone healing of a novel tapered, self-cutting tissue-level test implant with a standard tissue-level control implant in a submerged healing regimen.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

In a mandibular minipig model, implants were inserted and evaluated histometrically after a healing period of 3, 6, and 12 weeks. The primary outcome was the evaluation of bone-to-implant contact (BIC) and secondary outcomes were primary stability as per insertion torque and first BIC (fBIC). Outcomes for the test and control implants were compared using Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and mixed linear regression models.

RESULTS

Insertion torque values were significantly higher for the test (50.0 ± 26.4 Ncm) compared to the control implants (35.2 ± 19.7 Ncm, p = .0071). BIC values of test implants were non-inferior to those of control implants over the investigated study period. After 12 weeks, the corresponding values measured were 81.62 ± 11.12% and 90.41 ± 4.81% (p = .1763) for test and control implants, respectively. Similarly, no statistical difference was found for fBIC values, except for the 12 weeks outcome that showed statistically lower values for the test (-675.58 ± 590.88 μm) compared to control implants (-182.75 ± 197.40 μm, p = .0068).

CONCLUSIONS

Novel self-cutting tissue-level implants demonstrated noninferior osseointegration and crestal bone height maintenance to the tissue-level implants. Histometric outcomes between both implants demonstrated test implants were statistically noninferior to control implants, despite substantial differences in the bone engagement mechanism and resulting differences in insertion torque and qualitative bone healing patterns.

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