Implants Survival Rate in Regenerated Sites with Innovative Graft Biomaterials: 1 Year Follow-Up.

In thirteen different dental clinics in Singapore, Spain, Czech Republic and Italy, 504 patients were selected, and 483 dental implants were placed in maxillary sites after alveolar socket preservation (ASP) procedures with an autologous demineralized tooth extracted as graft material from an innovative Tooth Transformer device was obtained. All procedures used were reported in n°638 Ethical Committee surgical protocol of University of Chieti and approved. After 4 months, at dental implant placing, bone biopsies were performed to evaluate the histologic outcomes, and 12 months after implant loading, global implant survival rate, failure percentage and peri-implant bone loss were detected.

Prospective Study on Incidence, Risk Factors and Outcome of Recurrent Infections.

Background: Limited and wide-ranging data are available on the recurrent infection (rCDI) incidence rate.

Methods: We performed a cohort study with the aim to assess the incidence of and risk factors for rCDI. Adult patients with a first CDI, hospitalized in 15 Italian hospitals, were prospectively included and followed-up for 30 d after the end of antimicrobial treatment for their first CDI.

Alveolar Socket Preservation with Different Autologous Graft Materials: Preliminary Results of a Multicenter Pilot Study in Human.

Background: The histological and histomorphometrical results were evaluated between vital whole and non-vital endodontically treated teeth used as autologous grafts in post-extractive socket preservation procedures.

Methods: Twenty-eight patients (average age 51.79 ± 5.

Effect of roughened micro-threaded implant neck and platform switching on marginal bone loss: a multicenter retrospective study with 6-year follow-up.

Objective: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate medium-term marginal peri-implant bone loss following placement of root-form implants featuring a micro-threaded rough-surfaced neck and a platform-switched implant-abutment connection.

Method And Materials: Records were identified of patients treated with such implants over a 3-year period at three Italian dental centers. Patient radiographs were digitized and subjected to computerized analysis of peri-implant bone resorption.

Clinical and surgical management of odontoma.

Objective And Background: Odontomas are hamartomatous developmental malformations of the dental tissues. We present a retrospective study of recent clinical experience using erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Er:YAG) (wavelength 2940 nm) and chromium-doped yttrium scandium gallium garnet lasers (Er,Cr:YSSG) (wavelength 2780 nm) for the surgical treatment of these lesions, and score postsurgical pain.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study comprised 35 odontomas treated at the Department of Oral Pathology and Laser-Assisted Surgery, San Martino Hospital, University of Genoa, Italy.