A randomized clinical trial to investigate the influence of the healing procedure - closed vs. open healing - on the success rate of dental implants
- Conditions
- K08Other disorders of teeth and supporting structures
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 40
Interdental gaps in the maxillary and/or mandibular posterior region
- Free-end situations in the maxillary and/or mandibular posterior region
o The extraction was at least 3 months ago. Only early implantations (3 - 6 months post extraction) and late implantations (> 6 months post extraction) are performed.
- A contralateral natural tooth must be present as a reference tooth, as well as antagonistic dentition.
- The patient has good oral hygiene and compliance.
- A pre-implant hygiene phase must have been completed.
- The patient's declaration of consent is available.
- Persons under 18 or persons lacking legal capacity
- Untreated acute periodontitis with pocket depths > 4 mm.
- Heavy smokers (more than 10 cigarettes per day)
- Taking bisphosphonates
- Pregnant women
- Alcohol or drug addicts
- Patients with an infectious disease such as hepatitis, HIV or AIDS
- Patients with severe diabetes mellitus.
- Immediate implantations
- Primarily recognizable need for augmentation
- Width of the gap in the mesio-distal direction for single-tooth gaps > 6.8 mm
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Implant loss in an observation period of 5 years after insertion differentiated according to the two forms of therapy
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method