Using ultra-short dental implants is a promising alternative to extensive bone grafting procedures for patients with atrophic posterior mandibles and vertical bone loss. However, the amount of insertion torque (IT) applied during implant placement si...
14 December 2020
The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate implant survival, marginal bone loss and peri-implant complications in 326 short and ultra-short implants. Implants were placed in the maxillary and mandibular posterior regions of 140 patients with...
Background: Severe maxillary atrophy often precludes placement of conventional dental implants and frequently requires invasive bone augmentation procedures. This prospective pilot study evaluated a treatment concept using immediately loaded 5.2-mm u...
Recent short-term studies suggested the use of short and ultra-short implants in association with a modified osteotome sinus floor elevation (internal sinus lift) technique for the treatment of edentulous resorbed posterior maxilla. The aim of this r...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to assess the long-term clinical performance of full-arch fixed restorations made of fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) supported by four ultra-short implants (4.0 × 5.0 mm) in patients with edentulous, atr...
As the atrophic posterior maxilla often presents serious limitations for dental implant procedures, a minimally invasive technique was proposed. The study aimed to retrospectively evaluate the outcomes of short and ultra-short locking-taper implants,...
Progressive alveolar resorption complicates prosthetic rehabilitation of the atrophic edentulous mandible, and the conventional two-implant mandibular overdenture concentrates occlusal forces on anterior fixtures through extended posterior cantilever...
Background: This in vitro study evaluated the influence of macro and microscopic implant design, drilling protocol, and bone density on the primary stability of 4 mm ultrashort dental implants, aiming to provide evidence-based guidance for their use...
17 September 2021
The use of short (<8 mm long) and ultra-short (<6 mm long) implants allows the prosthetic rehabilitation of the posterior ridges of the jaws avoiding reconstructive procedures. Nevertheless, this approach requires vast experience to ensure the...
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of using ultrashort implants in the rehabilitation of jaws of fragile patients. The aim of the study was to retrospectively evaluate the survival rate of full-arch prosthetic rehabilitation on ultrashort...
Short implants were introduced to reduce morbidity, treatment duration, and complex bone regeneration interventions in atrophic jaws and to improve patient-reported outcomes. This study aimed to determine the insertion torque (IT), removal torque (RT...
Background: The management of complete mandibular edentulism in frail patients with severe bone atrophy is a clinical challenge. Ultrashort implants (≤4 mm) have been proposed as a minimally invasive alternative to bone augmentation procedures; ho...
Dental rehabilitation of fibula free flap mandibular reconstructions can be limited by the reduced vertical bone height available for implant placement. This study evaluated the biomechanical influence of ultra-short, extra-short, and conventional im...
Background/Objectives: One of the most serious complications following implant placement in the atrophic posterior mandible is injury to the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN), which can also happen during occlusal loading of the implants. This study inve...
Patients with Kennedy Class I are usually treated with clasp-retained removable partial dentures (RPDs) as the prosthetic gold standard. For additional stabilization of the RPD, clinicians are often confronted with the question of secondary implant p...
This article explores the enhancement of material surface properties of Ti6Al4V, potentially applicable to dental implants, through ultra-short pulse laser systems. This study investigates potential connections between surface wettability and biocomp...
Today, the engineering of load-bearing bone tissue after severe trauma still relies on metal-based (Ti, CoCrMo alloys or stainless steel) permanent implants. Such artificial scaffolds are typically applied in the body and come into direct contact wit...
Background and objectives: The aim of this systematic review with meta-analysis was to assess the performance of short implants in comparison with standard implants and sinus floor elevation in atrophic posterior maxilla. Materials and methods: The p...
Background/Objectives: The management of edentulism and severe alveolar bone loss in older adults remains a significant challenge in implant dentistry. Given the potential biological and therapeutic burden associated with extensive regenerative proce...
Bacterial infection is one of the most common and harmful medical issues following the implantation of materials and devices in the body leading to antibiotic resistance of diverse bacterial strains. In this work, a novel approach is presented combin...
Developing antimicrobial surfaces that combat implant-associated infections while promoting host cell response is a key strategy for improving current therapies for orthopaedic injuries. In this paper, we present the application of ultra-short laser...
Background/Objectives: In the last decades, dental implant surfaces have been evolving to increase success and implant survival rates. More studies evaluating outcomes with implants with ultra-hydrophilic multi-zone anodized surfaces are necessary. T...
Ultra-short laser (USL)-induced surface structuring combined with nanoparticles synthesis by multiphoton photoreduction represents a novel single-step approach for commercially pure titanium (cp-Ti) surface enhancement. Such a combination leads to th...
The time-frequency balanced spectral entropy of the EEG is a monitoring technique measuring the level of hypnosis during general anesthesia. Two components of spectral entropy are calculated: state entropy (SE) and response entropy (RE). Transcathete...
We present in this paper an ultra-low-power impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transmitter intended for short-range, highly energy-efficient, and compact silicon-area applications, such as implantable brain–computer interfaces (iBCIs). The p...
Ultrashort pulse lasers have significant advantages over conventional continuous wave and long pulse lasers for the texturing of metallic surfaces, especially for nanoscale surface structure patterning. Furthermore, ultrafast laser beam polarization...
To address the current demands for antenna miniaturization, ultra-bandwidth, and circular polarization in advanced medical devices, a novel ISM band implantable antenna for blood glucose monitoring has been developed. This antenna achieves miniaturiz...
This paper proposes a simplified fabrication processing for nanosheet Field-Effect Transistors (FETs) part of beyond-3-nm node technology. Formation of the ground plane (GP) region can be replaced by an epitaxial grown doped ultra-thin (DUT) layer on...
Metal implants used in trauma surgeries are sometimes difficult to remove after the completion of the healing process due to the strong integration with the bone tissue. Periodic surface micro- and nanostructures can directly influence cell adhesion...
The outstanding combination of high tensile strength and extensibility of spider silk is believed to contribute to the material’s toughness. Thus, there is great interest in engineering silk for biomedical products such as suture or implants. Additio...
This case report describes a novel procedure using the Isolock Intrauma® implant system for treating medial instability of the carpometacarpal and tarsometatarsal joints, as demonstrated in in two dogs. A 9-year-old spayed female Spanish greyhoun...
Expandable implants including shape memory alloy (SMA) elements have great potential to minimize the risk of implant loosening and to increase the primary stability of bone anchoring. Surface structuring of such elements may further improve these pro...
Implant surgery is a lengthy dental procedure, and sedation is often used to reduce discomfort. The effectiveness of sedation has traditionally been evaluated in terms of patient and surgeon satisfaction, but the most important goal is not to induce...
Besides the need for biomaterial surface modification to improve cellular attachment, laser-structuring is favorable for designing a new surface topography for external bone fixator pins or implants. The principle of this study was to observe how bio...
Irreversible anterior segment blindness with preserved retinal integrity (e.g., dense corneal opacity) remains a major clinical challenge because effective sight-restoring options are limited. Here, we describe an intraocular micro-light-emitting dio...
Implantable devices to measure neurochemical or electrical activity from the brain are mainstays of neuroscience research and have become increasingly utilized as enabling components of clinical therapies. In order to increase the number of recording...
Background: The study aims to compare the short-term clinical outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) with the novel self-expandable, intra-annular Navitor valve (NAV) and the balloon-expandable, intra-annular Sapien 3 Ultra valve...
The memristor has long been known as a nonvolatile memory technology alternative and has recently been explored for neuromorphic computing, owing to its capability to mimic the synaptic plasticity of the human brain. The architecture of a memristor s...
Background: Remimazolam is a novel ultrashort-acting intravenous benzodiazepine sedative–hypnotic that significantly reduces the times to sedation onset and recovery. This trial was conducted to confirm the recovery time from anesthesia of remi...
The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the stress concentration of short dental implants supporting different conical abutments using 3D finite element analysis (3D-FEA). A tridimensional model of single-unit short dental implants (5.2 mm...
Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess clinical outcomes and quality of life after PFO closure in patients with previous stroke/TIA of undetermined cause and in patients with other complex PFO-associated clinical conditions. Methods: Betwe...