Retrospective clinical study on sinus bone graft and tapered-body implant placement

Resonance Frequency Analysis of Tapered Implants Placed at Maxillary Posterior Sites After Lateral Sinus Augmentation: A 1.5-year Follow-Up Prospective Study

OBJECTIVES

To use resonance frequency analysis to evaluate tapered implants placed at maxillary posterior sites after lateral sinus augmentation.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Patients who had missing teeth in the maxillary posterior area and required lateral sinus augmentation before implant placement were enrolled in this study. After a 6-month healing period, a tapered implant (Osstem TSIV) was placed. Implant success rate, survival rate, and marginal bone loss of the implants were measured. For resonance frequency analysis, implant stability quotient (ISQ) values were measured at each visit during a 1.5-year follow-up period.

RESULTS

Twenty-four patients completed the study procedure. The residual bone height was 2.57 ± 1.10 mm (mean ± SD). Healing of the grafted area was uneventful in all cases, and 55 tapered implants were installed. The implant success rate was 95.56%, and the survival rate was 100% throughout the observation period. The marginal bone loss was limited to 0.22 ± 0.44 mm. ISQ increased gradually from 68.40 ± 11.14 to 82.24 ± 4.75 during the 1.5-year follow-up period.

CONCLUSION

The tapered implants showed good initial and final stability after placement in the soft bone of the maxillary posterior area after lateral sinus augmentation.

Frequency of bone graft in implant surgery

BACKGROUND

Implant surgery has become popular with the advance of surgical techniques such as sinus lifting, guided bone regeneration, and block bone graft. However, there were no data about the frequency of bone graft during implant surgery. The purpose of this study was to report the frequency and types of bone graft depending on dental implant patients' profile to complement the database regarding implant surgery.

METHODS

The implant operations had been performed from January 2006 to October 2014. The upper and lower jaws were divided into six sextants. A total of 792 sextants were included in this study. Patient information including sex, age, sites, bone graft, and types of bone were investigated.

RESULTS

A total of 1512 implants had been placed. Male and female sextants were 421 and 371, respectively (M:F = 1:0.88). Average age was 54.3 (ranging from 20 to 88 years old). Implants were placed in the posterior maxilla (322 sextants, 40.7 %), posterior mandible (286 sextants, 36.1 %), anterior maxilla (127 sextants, 16.1 %), and anterior mandible (57 sextants, 7.2 %). Bone graft was performed in 50.3 % of the sextants. Among the bone grafted sites, sinus lifting with lateral approach (22.1 %) and guided bone regeneration (22.7 %) were performed most frequently.

CONCLUSIONS

Bone graft in implant surgery was necessary to augment defects. More than half of the sextants needed bone graft for implant installation.

Disappearance of a dental implant after migration into the maxillary sinus: an unusual case

Migration of dental implants into the maxillary sinus is uncommon. However, poor bone quality and quantity in the posterior maxilla can increase the potential for this complication to arise during implant placement procedures. The aim of this report is to present a dental implant that migrated into the maxillary sinus and disappeared. A 53-year-old male patient was referred to us by his dentist after a dental implant migrated into his maxillary sinus. The displaced implant was discovered on a panoramic radiograph taken five days before his referral. Using computed tomography, we determined that the displaced dental implant was not in the antrum. There was also no sign of oroantral fistula. Because of the small size of the displaced implant, we think that the implant may have left the maxillary sinus via the ostium.