title: Anatomical Remodeling of Buccal Bone Plate in 35 Premaxillary Post-Extraction Immediately Restored Single TPS Implants: 10-Year Radiographic Investigation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The anatomical remodeling technique (ART) was proposed to place postextraction implants with the aid of specific osteotomes. This study is a clinical and radiographic evaluation with 10-year follow-up of anterior postextraction single implants placed with the ART and immediately restored.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-five patients, with a hopeless tooth in the anterior maxilla, were included in the study and 35 implants were inserted according to the ART. Clinical and radiographic evaluations were performed at baseline (T0), after 6 (T1) and 14 months (T2), 4 years after surgery (T3) and every other year up to the 10-year follow-up (T4, T5, and T6). Implant success, survival, and failure rates were evaluated according to the International Congress of Oral Implantologists Pisa Consensus Conference criteria.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty-nine patients and 29 implants were available for the 10-year data analysis. After 10 years, the accumulated mean marginal bone loss was 2.69 ± 0.42 mm. The cumulative survival rate of the implants was 100%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Immediately loaded postextractive implants, placed according to the ART, have been proved to be a predictable method to rehabilitate single tooth in the anterior maxilla.
authors.affiliation: *Associate Professor and Head, Division of Periodontics and Implantology, Oral Health Centre, School of Dentistry, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia. †Research Fellow, Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, Dental School, University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy. ‡Full Professor, Division of Restorative Dentistry, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona. §Associate Professor, School of Dentistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. ¶Researcher, School of Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. ‖Full Professor, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, UCAM, Spain.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Quaranta
authors.forename: Vittoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Perrotti
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Putignano
authors.forename: Luciano
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Malchiodi
authors.forename: Iole
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vozza
authors.forename: José Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Calvo Guirado
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019250:Dental Implants, Single-Tooth; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D057893:Immediate Dental Implant Loading / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011861:Radiography, Dental; D055815:Young Adult