Periodontists and oral surgeons' peri-implantitis-related education, knowledge, attitudes, and professional behavior: A national survey.

Objectives: Each year, approximately 5 million dental implants are placed in the United States and one out of three patients is likely to experience peri-implantitis (PI). The objectives were to compare the PI-related education, knowledge, attitudes, and professional behavior of periodontists and oral maxillofacial surgeons (OMS), and to explore relationships between these constructs of interest.

Methods: A total of 389 periodontists and 161 OMS responded to a web-based survey.

Non-surgical peri-implantitis treatment with or without systemic antibiotics: a randomized controlled clinical trial.

Objectives: To assess the adjunctive effect of systemic amoxicillin (AMX) and metronidazole (MTZ) in patients receiving non-surgical treatment (NST) for peri-implantitis (PI).

Materials And Methods: Thirty-seven patients were randomized into an experimental group treated with NST plus AMX + MTZ (N = 18) and a control group treated with NST alone (N = 19). Clinical parameters were evaluated at 12 weeks post-treatment.

Submucosal microbiome of peri-implant sites: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: To study the peri-implant submucosal microbiome in relation to implant disease status, dentition status, smoking habit, gender, implant location, implant system, time of functional loading, probing pocket depth (PPD), and presence of bleeding on probing.

Materials And Methods: Biofilm samples were collected from the deepest peri-implant site of 41 patients with paper points, and analysed using 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing.

Results: We observed differences in microbial profiles by PPD, implant disease status, and dentition status.

Surgical treatment of peri-implantitis defects with two different xenograft granules: A randomized clinical pilot study.

Objectives: To investigate whether xenograft EB (EndoBon) is non-inferior to xenograft BO (Bio-Oss) when used in reconstructive surgery of peri-implant osseous defects.

Materials And Methods: Dental patients with one implant each demonstrating peri-implantitis were randomized to receive surgical debridement and defect fill with either BO or EB. Changes in bone level (BL) and intrabony defect depth (IDD) evaluated radiographically were the primary outcomes.

Occlusal Migration of Teeth Adjacent to Implant Prostheses in Adults: A Long-Term Study.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of continuous tooth eruption on the outcomes of single-implant-supported restorations in the anterior maxilla of adults.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-six patients (age: 21 to 78 years) treated with single-implant-supported restorations in the esthetic zone were included. Radiographs obtained at crown placement and follow-up examinations from 1 to 15 years postloading were analyzed with regard to vertical incisal plane changes of the implant-supported crown relative to adjacent teeth.

Stem cell therapy for reconstruction of alveolar cleft and trauma defects in adults: A randomized controlled, clinical trial.

Background: Stem cell therapy with bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells is a promising tissue engineering strategy to promote regeneration of craniofacial bone.

Purpose: To determine whether cell therapy with ex vivo expanded stem cell populations would be safe and efficacious in the regeneration of large alveolar defects in patients with a history of cleft palate or craniofacial trauma.

Materials And Methods: Eighteen patients (10 patients with traumatic injury and 8 patients with cleft palate) presenting with missing teeth associated with horizontal alveolar bone deficiencies were included in this randomized controlled clinical trial.

Bisphosphonates: Clinical Applications and Adverse Events in Dentistry.

Purpose: To review the mechanisms of action and clinical applications of bisphosphonate drugs, which are widely used in the management of metastatic bone cancer and systemic metabolic bone diseases, as well as the complications related to bisphosphonate treatment, emphasising the occurrence and management of bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws (BRONJ).

Materials And Methods: A search of the medical and dental literature was conducted in Medline and Embase using a combination of the key words bisphosphonates, jaw, complications, osteonecrosis, osteoporosis and periodontal disease. A manual search of the references of the retrieved articles was also performed.

The effect of blue light on periodontal biofilm growth in vitro.

We have previously shown that blue light eliminates the black-pigmented oral bacteria Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia, Prevotella nigrescens, and Prevotella melaninogenica. In the present study, the in vitro photosensitivity of the above black-pigmented microorganisms and four Fusobacteria species (Fusobacterium nucleatum ss. nucleatum, F.

Metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma to the maxilla: case report and literature review.

Metastatic tumors to the oral cavity are uncommon and a thyroid origin is considered exceedingly rare. A case of metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) presenting as a painful swelling in the right posterior maxilla of a 63-year-old male is reported here. The patient had been diagnosed with PTC 2 years ago and treated with thyroidectomy and radioactive iodine treatment.