The Single Midline Implant in the Edentulous Mandible—Current Status of Clinical Trials
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Current State of Investigations
3. Discussion
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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First Author and Year | Number of Patients | Mean Age (Years) | Mean Follow-Up Period (Years) | Retention Element | Characteristics of the Investigation | Implant-Survival |
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Cordioli 1997 [34] | 21 | 74.2 | 5 | ball | Conventional loading after 4 months | 100% |
Krennmair 2001 [38] | 9 | 82.2 | 1.5 | ball | Conventional loading after 3 months | 100% |
Liddelow 2010 [37] | 25 + 8 | 68.0 | 3 | ball | Immediate loading, etched implant surfaces in 25 cases, machined implant surfaces in 8 cases | 100% (etched) 62.5% (maschined) |
Alsabeeha 2011 [53] | 36 | 68.0 | 1 | ball or Locator | Open healing with moderate loading of the healing abutment, implant loading after 6 weeks, randomized trial comparing 3 implant systems | 91.7% * |
Bryant 2015 [42] | 42 | 66.6 | 5 | ball | Open healing with moderate loading of the healing abutment, implant loading after 6 weeks, randomized trial comparing 3 implant systems | 100% (94.7% for 2 implants) |
Ismail 2015 [54] | 10 | Not specified | 2 | ball/magnet | Conventional loading after 4 months, randomized trial comparing ball versus magnet | 100% |
Tavakolizadeh 2015 [40] | 10 | 59 | 1 | ball | Open healing with moderate loading of the healing abutment, implant loading after 6 weeks, randomized trial comparing 1 versus 2 implants | 100% |
Alqutaibi 2017 | 28 | 58.2 | 1 | Locator | Conventional loading after 3 months, randomized trial comparing 1 versus 2 implants | 100% |
Kronström 2017 [56] | 36 | 53.3 | 5 | ball | Immediate loading, randomized trial comparing 1 versus 2 implants | 82.4% (81.6% for 2 implants) |
Paleari 2018 [57] | 11 | 65.0 | 1 | ball | Conventional loading after 4 months, randomized trial comparing 1 versus 2 implants | 90.9% (95% for 2 implants) |
Passia 2019 [58] | 11 | 66.7 | 9 | ball | Conventional loading after 3 months in 5 cases, Open healing with moderate loading of the healing abutment in 6 cases, conventional loading after 3 months | 100% |
Asami 2020 [59] | 22 | 74.2 | 1 | Locator | Conventional loading after 3–5 months | 95.5% |
Kern 2021 [60] | 158 | 69.3 | 5 | ball | Immediate loading in 81 cases, conventional loading after 3 months in 77 cases | 87.8% (immediate loading) 97% (conventional loading) |
De Araujo 2022 [49] | 11 | 63.5 | 3 | ball | Conventional loading after 3 months, randomized trial comparing 1 versus 2 (removable) versus 4 (fixed) implants | 100% |
Passia 2022 [50] | 13 | at least 50 years | 1 | stud-att. | Conventional loading after 3 months, overdentures were successively loaded via one, two and three implants | 100% |
De Souza 2022 [51] | 10 | at least 65 years | 0.5 | Novaloc/Locator | Open healing, conventional loading after 8 weeks, comparison of two different attachment systems (Locator/Novaloc) | 100% |
Coutinho 2022 [48] | 45 | 68.1 | 5 | ball | Immediate loading in 38 cases, conventional loading after 3 months in 7 cases | 88.9% |
Ala 2022 [52] | 18 | 65 | 1 | stud-att. | Short implants (7 mm) placed in severely resorbed mandibles, conventional loading after 3 months | 100% |
De Resende 2023 [43] | 23 | Not specified | 4 | ball | Open healing, early loading after 3 weeks, randomized trial comparing 1 versus 2 implants | 100% (93.7% for 2 implants) |
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Passia N, Kern M. The Single Midline Implant in the Edentulous Mandible—Current Status of Clinical Trials. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2023; 12(11):3773. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12113773
Chicago/Turabian StylePassia, Nicole, and Matthias Kern. 2023. "The Single Midline Implant in the Edentulous Mandible—Current Status of Clinical Trials" Journal of Clinical Medicine 12, no. 11: 3773. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12113773
APA StylePassia, N., & Kern, M. (2023). The Single Midline Implant in the Edentulous Mandible—Current Status of Clinical Trials. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(11), 3773. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12113773