Purpose: Full-arch implant rehabilitation with four implants has become an accepted modality of treatment for fixed restorations in totally edentulous mandibles or maxillas; however, there is little scientific evidence on the outcome for the same treatment with three implants. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a protocol for three implants (all-on-three) supporting a delayed loaded fixed prosthesis in the completely edentulous maxilla, mandible, or both.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective clinical study included 17 patients with 72 implants to restore 24 fully edentulous arches. The implants were loaded 4 months after surgery with fixed zirconia prostheses. A 5-year follow-up was performed.
Results: No implants were lost, giving a 100% success rate. The marginal bone loss was, on average, 0.53 mm (SD, 0.32 mm) for the internal connection implants and 0.84 mm (SD, 0.62 mm) for the external connection implants.
Conclusions: Within the limits of this small group clinical study, the high survival rate of the all-on-three protocol with delayed loading may be a viable concept.
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Case Rep Dent
December 2024
Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.
The authors present two cases of mouth floor hemorrhage consequences of implant placement within the atrophic anterior mandible. In one patient, the implant placement was associated with the guided bone regeneration (GBR) technique. This serious complication has been widely described in the literature, especially in the anterior mandible area.
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December 2024
Ilser Turkyilmaz DMD, PhD Associate Dean of Digital Innovation, Professor and Chair, Department of Comprehensive Care, School of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Conventional complete denture wearers often complain of lack of stability and overall discomfort with their prostheses. The advent of dental implants and advanced prosthetic methods have greatly improved this struggle for edentulous patients. The utilisation of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD-CAM) technology has only further enhanced the capabilities of dental practitioners to rapidly and accurately restore edentulism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFShanghai Kou Qiang Yi Xue
October 2024
Dental Disease Control Institute, Xuhui District. Shanghai 20032, China. E-mail:
Purpose: To compare the trueness of the tissue surface of the complete denture base among the digital cutting complete denture, the digital 3D printing complete denture and the conventional complete denture.
Methods: Three edentulous patients were selected, and three complete dentures were made for each case. Cutting dentures (cutting group), 3D printed dentures(printing group) were considered as the experimental groups, traditional dentures (traditional group) were considered as the control group.
Case Rep Dent
December 2024
Department of Prosthodontics, Geriatric Dentistry and Craniomandibular Disorder, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Aßmannshauser Straße 4-6 14197, Berlin, Germany.
Due to bone loss, implant placement in the posterior mandible is often impossible without prior augentative procedures. The reconstruction of bone defects with horizontal and vertical components using particulated bone grafts requires the placement of a mechanically stable structure for stabilization of the grafting material. Although titanium-reinforced membranes and titanium meshes have been shown to be effective in this indication, the necessity of their removal, often in a separate surgical procedure, is seen as a disadvantage.
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December 2024
Department of Oral Medicine and Periodontology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Objective: To compare the effectiveness of prosthetic rehabilitation of edentulous patients using conventional complete dentures (CD), single median dental implant retained over dentures (SIMOD) with over dentures retained by two dental implants (TIMOD).
Methods: Thirty completely edentulous patients (fifteen each arm) presented to the Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya were randomly selected for the SIMOD or TIMOD groups. Patients were initially provided with CD.
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