Histological evaluation of osseointegration between conventional and novel bone-level tapered implants in healed bone-A preclinical study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To histologically compare osseointegration and crestal bone healing between newly introduced tapered, self-cutting bone-level test implants and tapered bone-level control implants in sites with fully healed sites.

Methods

Sixty-six implants (33 test, 33 control) were placed 1 mm subcrestally in a minipig model and underwent qualitative histologic and quantitative histometric analyses after 3, 6 and 12 weeks of submerged healing. The primary and secondary outcomes were the bone-to-implant contact (BIC) and first bone-to-implant contact (fBIC). Outcomes between the test and control implants were statistically compared.

Results

The BIC values of the test implants were comparable and non-inferior over the time points studied, except for the 12 weeks time point which

SUBMITTER: Imber JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626690 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature