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:
- 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