Patient recruitment
Table 1 Patient recruitment
author: Waldemar Reich,Ramona Schweyen,Christian Heinzelmann,Jeremias Hey,Bilal Al-Nawas, Alexander Walter Eckert | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
1. Adult patients, male and female
1. Comorbidity ASA category ≥ III
2. Partially/totally edentulous patients
2. Pregnancy, bruxism
3. Alveolar process atrophy Cawood et Howell category ≥ IV
3. Smoking ≥ 10 cigarettes/day
4. Minimum vertical bone height of 7–9 mm for placement of short implants (5–7-mm length)
4. Radiotherapy ≥ 50 Gy [72] or
5. Intravenous bisphosphonate therapy [73] with a significant risk of developing osteo(radio)necrosis of the jaw
5. Patients without willingness to accept vertical bone augmentation
6. Psychiatric comorbidity that could influence course of treatment
7. Untreated or poorly controlled diabetes mellitus
8. Highly atrophic jaws that require vertical augmentation
Serial posts:
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Novel expandable short dental implants with reduced vertical bone height
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Introduction : Novel expandable short dental implants (1)
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Introduction : Novel expandable short dental implants (2)
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Material & methods : Novel expandable short dental implants (1)
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Material & methods : Novel expandable short dental implants (2)
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Results : Novel expandable short dental implants (2)
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Discussion : Novel expandable short dental implants (1)
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Discussion : Novel expandable short dental implants (2)
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Discussion : Novel expandable short dental implants (3)
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Discussion : Novel expandable short dental implants (4)
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Discussion : Novel expandable short dental implants (5)
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Table 1 Patient recruitment
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Table 2 Surgical treatment protocol
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Table 3 Prosthetic treatment protocol
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Table 4 Clinical characteristics of the study cohort
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Figure 1. a Closed short expandable dental implant
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Figure 2. Cumulative implant survival over the follow-up period
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Figure 3. a Primary implant stability
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Figure 4 a–h Prosthetic restauration—follow-up examination. Intraoral and perioral views of a rehabilitated female patient. (She asked explicitly only for implantological treatment in the mandible.)
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Figure 5 Postoperative orthopantomogram
| Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
|---|---|
| 1. Adult patients, male and female | 1. Comorbidity ASA category ≥ III |
| 2. Partially/totally edentulous patients | 2. Pregnancy, bruxism |
| 3. Alveolar process atrophy Cawood et Howell category ≥ IV | 3. Smoking ≥ 10 cigarettes/day |
| 4. Minimum vertical bone height of 7–9 mm for placement of short implants (5–7-mm length) | 4. Radiotherapy ≥ 50 Gy [72] or 5. Intravenous bisphosphonate therapy [73] with a significant risk of developing osteo(radio)necrosis of the jaw |
| 5. Patients without willingness to accept vertical bone augmentation | 6. Psychiatric comorbidity that could influence course of treatment |
| 7. Untreated or poorly controlled diabetes mellitus | |
| 8. Highly atrophic jaws that require vertical augmentation |
- Novel expandable short dental implants with reduced vertical bone height
- Introduction : Novel expandable short dental implants (1)
- Introduction : Novel expandable short dental implants (2)
- Material & methods : Novel expandable short dental implants (1)
- Material & methods : Novel expandable short dental implants (2)
- Results : Novel expandable short dental implants (2)
- Discussion : Novel expandable short dental implants (1)
- Discussion : Novel expandable short dental implants (2)
- Discussion : Novel expandable short dental implants (3)
- Discussion : Novel expandable short dental implants (4)
- Discussion : Novel expandable short dental implants (5)
- Table 1 Patient recruitment
- Table 2 Surgical treatment protocol
- Table 3 Prosthetic treatment protocol
- Table 4 Clinical characteristics of the study cohort
- Figure 1. a Closed short expandable dental implant
- Figure 2. Cumulative implant survival over the follow-up period
- Figure 3. a Primary implant stability
- Figure 4 a–h Prosthetic restauration—follow-up examination. Intraoral and perioral views of a rehabilitated female patient. (She asked explicitly only for implantological treatment in the mandible.)
- Figure 5 Postoperative orthopantomogram