Masseter muscle activity of conventional denture, fixed prosthesis, and milled bar overdenture used for All-on-4 implant rehabilitation: A within-subject study.

Purpose: to examine the electromyographic (EMG) activity of the masseter muscles in patients with conventional dentures and compare it to EMG activity of fixed prosthesis, and milled bar overdentures used to rehabilitate mandibular atrophied ridges according to the All-on-4 concept.

Methods: Eighteen edentulous subjects with atrophied mandibles received complete dentures (CD, control). After 3 months, four implants were installed between the mental foramina according to the "All-on-4" protocol and loaded immediately.

Milled Bar with PEEK and Metal Housings for Inclined Implants Supporting Mandibular Overdentures: 1-Year Clinical, Prosthetic, and Patient-Based Outcomes.

Purpose: This investigation aimed to evaluate clinical, prosthetic, and patient-based outcomes of a milled bar with polyether ether ketone (PEEK) and metal housings for inclined implants supporting mandibular overdentures.

Materials And Methods: Eighteen edentulous participants received four implants in the interforaminal area of the mandible (two vertically and two distally inclined), and implants were connected with milled bars. Overdentures were attached to the bars with PEEK female housing (test group).

Satisfaction and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life of Different Attachments Used for Implant-Retained Overdentures in Subjects with Resorbed Mandibles: A Crossover Trial.

Purpose: The aim of this crossover study was to evaluate patient satisfaction and oral health related-quality of life (OHRQoL) with different connectors used for implant-retained overdentures in subjects with resorbed mandibles.

Materials And Methods: Eighteen edentulous patients with atrophied mandibular bone received traditional maxillary and mandibular dentures (control). After 3 months, two implants were inserted in the canine regions.

Correlation between International Normalized Ratio values and sufficiency of two different local hemostatic measures in anticoagulated patients.

Objectives: The management of patients receiving oral anticoagulant therapy (OAT) undergoing minor oral surgeries is controversial. This study was designed to evaluate the correlation between International Normalized Ratio (INR) values and the sufficiency of two different local hemostatic measures in controlling postextraction bleeding in anticoagulated patients.

Materials And Methods: One hundred and sixty patients receiving Warfarin OAT were included in this study.

Immediate implant placement into fresh extraction socket in the mandibular molar sites: a preliminary study of a modified insertion technique.

Background: Immediate implant insertion in mandibular molar extraction sockets raises a series of challenges for clinicians.

Purpose: This preliminary study demonstrates the use of a modified insertion technique of implant placement at the time of mandibular molar extraction.

Materials And Methods: Immediate implants were placed at the time of molar extraction in 20 patients; a sulcular buccal incision with releasing periosteal incisions were made around the mandibular molar to be replaced, and implant insertion into the interseptal/interradicular bone was performed.