title: Marginal Bone Level Evaluation after Functional Loading Around Two Different Dental Implant Designs.
abstract: Purpose. To investigate peri-implant alveolar bone changes using periapical radiographs before and after prosthetic delivery in submerged and nonsubmerged dental implants.Methods. Digital periapical films of 60 ITI Straumann nonsubmerged dental implants and 60 Xive Dentsply submerged dental implants were taken before, immediately after, and 12 and 24 weeks after the prosthetic restoration was delivered.Results. The 60-nonsubmerged dental implant group showed mean marginal bone resorption at baseline of 0.10 ± 0.23 mm and 24 weeks later, marginal bone resorption was 0.16 ± 0.25 mm. The submerged dental implant group showed a significantly higher distal marginal bone resorption over the mesial side. Mean marginal bone resorption at baseline was 0.16 ± 0.32 on the mesial and 0.41 ± 0.56 on the distal side. Twenty-four weeks later, it was 0.69 ± 0.69 mm on the mesial and 0.99 ± 0.90 mm on the distal side.Conclusion. First, it was possible to determine that submerged implants had a higher mean marginal bone resorption and less bone-to-implant contact than nonsubmerged implants. And second, the distal side of submerged dental implants presented higher marginal bone loss than the mesial side.
authors.affiliation: School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ko-Ning
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.affiliation: School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Eisner
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Salamanca
authors.affiliation: School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Dental Department of Taipei Medical University, Shuang-Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Hsi-Kuai
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Dental Department of Taipei Medical University, Wang-Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Sheng-Yang
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-3006-8068
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Dental Department of Taipei Medical University, Shuang-Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Wei-Jen
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-6637-4430
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016301:Alveolar Bone Loss / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D000069343:Bone-Implant Interface / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D015921:Dental Implants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D015921:Dental Implants