« Consecutive Case Series of Healed Single-Molar Sites Immediately Restored with Wide-Diameter Implants: A 1-Year Evaluation » 22 April 2016
On 22 April 2016, you are invited to join us at the International Osteology Symposium in Monaco where Dr Antoun will talk about “Immediate implantation and temporisation in the molar areas.”
Please read the latest clinical study by Hadi Antoun and his team “Consecutive Case Series of Healed Single-Molar Sites Immediately Restored with Wide-Diameter Implants: A 1-Year Evaluation” with the introduction below:
Clinical Study Consecutive Case Series of Healed Single-Molar Sites Immediately Restored with Wide-Diameter Implants: A 1-Year Evaluation
Hadi Antoun, Pierre Cherfane, and Bouchra Sojod
Training Institute for Advanced Implant Surgery (IFCIA), 75017 Paris, France
Department of Oral Surgery and Oral Implantology, School of Dentistry, University of Paris 7, 75013 Paris, France
Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere, 47-83 Boulevard de l’Hopital, 75013 Paris, France
Received 26 November 2015; Revised 3 March 2016; Accepted 20 March 2016
Academic Editor: Carlos A. Munoz-Viveros
Copyright © 2016 Hadi Antoun et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Introduction. To evaluate outcomes of wide-diameter (6 mm) implants immediately provisionalized with cement-retained single crowns in posterior molar sites. Materials and Methods. Forty-eight consecutive patients received a total of 53 moderately roughsurface, 6 mm diameter implants in healed sites. All implants were immediately provisionalized with a cement-retained provisional crown. Final prosthesis with cement-retained porcelain fused to metal crowns was delivered 3–6 months later. Patients were followed up for 1 year. Outcome measures were implant failures and success rate, complications, marginal bone levels, bone level changes, papilla index, bleeding on probing, and inflammation. Results. One patient was lost to follow-up. At one year, the implant survival and success rate were 98.1%.The mean marginal bone loss after 1 year was −0.17±1.84 mm. Ideal papilla score was recorded at 83.8% of the sites. More than 95.6% of the sites showed no bleeding or inflammation. No procedure-related or device-related adverse events were reported. Conclusion. Wide-diameter (6 mm) implants can safely and successfully replace single posterior molars. Longer follow-up studies are necessary to evaluate the long-term success of these implants.
