title: Graftless Full-Arch Implant Rehabilitation with Interantral Implants and Immediate or Delayed Loading-Part I: Reconstruction of the Edentulous Maxilla.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare long-term survival and marginal bone loss of late interantral implants in the nonaugmented edentulous maxilla subjected to immediate vs delayed loading.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred twenty-two edentulous patients with implants in native, healed jawbone were subjected to either immediate loading (179 implants) or delayed loading (403 implants) of their four to six interantral implants (part I of 362 graftless maxillary cross-arch rehabilitations performed in the years 2004 to 2013). Kaplan-Meier survival estimates were computed, and marginal bone loss was evaluated in a stratified random sample of 20 patients per group.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fifteen of 582 implants failed within the mean observation period of 4.7 years, and no difference in 8-year survival estimates could be seen between immediate (98.3% [95% CI: 96.4-100.0]) and delayed (96.7% [95% CI: 94.7-98.6]) loading protocols (P = .370). Mean marginal bone resorption following implant insertion did not differ significantly between the groups (1.1 ± 1.3 mm vs 1.4 ± 1.3 mm, P = .490).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Immediate loading of interantral implants in the nonaugmented edentulous maxilla yields favorable results comparable to delayed loading and may be considered to shorten periods of removable provisional prostheses in maxillary edentulism.
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Busenlechner
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mailath-Pokorny
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haas
authors.forename: Rudolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fürhauser
authors.forename: Carina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Eder
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pommer
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Watzek
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016301:Alveolar Bone Loss / Q000209:etiology; D003724:Dental Arch / Q000601:surgery*; D003758:Dental Implantation, Endosseous / Q000379:methods*; D017268:Dental Prosthesis Retention; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D057893:Immediate Dental Implant Loading / Q000379:methods*; D007575:Jaw, Edentulous / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011475:Prosthesis Failure / Q000209:etiology; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D019415:Torque; D016896:Treatment Outcome