Immediate versus conventional loading of mandibular implant-supported fixed prostheses in edentulous patients: 10-year report of a randomised controlled trial.

Purpose: To compare the clinical outcomes of immediate versus conventional delayed loading of four dental implants in edentulous mandibles with fixed prostheses.

Materials And Methods: A blinded, two-arm, parallel group, randomised controlled trial was conducted. A total of 42 patients were included, and each received four Brånemark System implants with a TiUnite surface.

Clinical and radiographic peri-implant variables around short dental implants in type 2 diabetic, prediabetic, and non-diabetic patients.

Background: Clinical and radiographic status around short dental implants in patients with different glycemic levels remains unexplored.

Purpose: To determine the clinical and radiographic bone level (RBL) around short dental implants in type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), prediabetic, and non-diabetic patients.

Materials And Methods: Participants were grouped into three groups based on HbA1c levels: T2DM (Group-1); prediabetic patients (Group-2); and non-diabetic subjects (Group-3).

Early and immediate loading protocols for overdentures in completely edentulous maxillas: a comprehensive review of clinical trials.

A comprehensive review was conducted to answer the question 'Does the immediate loading of dental implants with an overdenture in the maxilla provide predictable clinical and psychological outcomes?' Detailed search strategies were used to identify pertinent articles in English that were published between 1975 and August 2013 and indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and a personal library; in addition, relevant journals were manually searched. Only randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs), controlled clinical trials (CCTs), and prospective studies with a follow-up period of at least one year, all involving 10 or more adult participants, were considered. Six prospective studies reporting on outcomes of up to 2 years were included, five of which employed a bar-retained overdenture, and one of which used a ball attachment as a retention mechanism.

A randomized controlled clinical trial of edentulous patients treated with immediately loaded implant-supported mandibular fixed prostheses.

Purpose: A 1-year blinded two-arm parallel randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted to test the null hypothesis that immediate loading of four dental implants between the mental foramina with a fixed prosthesis has no benefits compared with the conventional loading technique in terms of implant success and clinical function.

Materials And Methods: Forty-five patients, completely edentulous in the mandibles seeking implant-supported prostheses at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, were recruited. Four TiUnite dental implants (NobelBiocare®, Göteborg, Sweden) were placed following the one-stage surgical protocol.