Year : 2022

Volume : Volume 13

Issue : Issue 5

Address for correspondence :
Vishal Yadav
drvishalsinghyadav916@gmail.com

Abstract

Background: The pre-conditions for peri-implant bone regeneration and the one-stage non-submerged technique, which can achieve success rates comparable to implants placed in a two-stage submerged surgery, have led to increasingly sophisticated conceptions of implant loading. Materials and Procedures: This investigation includes 20 sites with just one missing tooth. Over the course of 12 months, clinical indicators such as the sulcus bleeding index (sBI), probing pocket depth (PD), and papilla index (PI), as well as radiographic factors like the crestal bone level, were evaluated. Results: The mean value for crestal bone loss ranged from baseline values of 0.25–0.31 at 3 weeks, 0.67 at 3 months, 0.85 at 6 months, and 0.88 at 12 months. Probing PD, the mean value for probing PD at 3 weeks was 1.20 ± 0.83, 3 months 1.60 ± 1.1, at 6 months 1.40 ± 1.14, and at 12 months 1.20 ± 1.0. Mean values for sBI at 3 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months were 0.00, 0.00, 0.3, 0.11, and 0.09, 0.25, respectively. With P = 0.000, PI demonstrated a substantial difference across points in time. Conclusion: At a 12-month follow-up, the dental implants had lost <1 mm of crestal bone, but between the time of implant insertion and 3 months later, there had been clinically substantial marginal bone loss. Following that, there was not much bone loss seen in the area around the implant over the next 9 months. The maturity of the peri-implant soft tissue persisted throughout the investigation.

Keywords: Single stage, Hard and soft tissues, Early loading.