Hard tissue preparation prior to dental implant placement: a four-year retrospective study

Abstract

Aim: The purpose of this study is to investigate the requirements of hard tissue preparation prior to dental implant placement.Methods: In this retrospective study, the records of 1086 patients who referred to Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Dentistry, for dental implant between 2011 and 2015 were investigated. The received frequency of patients’ onlay grafting, autogenous block grafting, socket preservation, guided bone regeneration, open sinus lifting, ridge split osteotomy, alveolar distraction osteogenesis, inferior alveolar nerve repositioning were evaluated in any process of the dental implant. Findings: 3186 dental implants in 1086 patients were included to the study. Among 295 patients, it was observed that the number of men was 144 (48.8%) and number of implants was totally 309 (47.2%) implants, while the number of grafted implants in women of 151 (51.2%) was 346 (52.8%). The numbers of grafting procedures for augmentation are as follows; 286 (43.7%) onlay grafting, 23 (3.5%) socket preservation, 9 (1.4%) guided bone regeneration, 271 (41.3%) open sinus lifting, 62 (9.5%) alveolar ridge splitting, 2 (0.3%) alveolar nerve repositioning and 2 (0.3%) distraction osteogenesis. Conclusion: With ongoing the increasing of developments in dental implant surgery, it will be inevitable that the different grafting procedures can be carried out before and during the implantation.

Keywords

• bone augmentation
• dental implant
• retrospective
• kemik augmentasyonu
• dental implant
• retrospektif