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Volume 38 , Issue 2
March/April 2018
Pages 165–170

Clinical and Histologic Evaluations of Immediately Placed SLA Dental Implants

Myron Nevins, DDS/Stefano Parma-Benfenati, DDS/Cosmin Sava, DDS/Catalin Sava, DDS/Franco Quinti, MD, DDS/Primo Galletti, MD, DDS/Gerardo Mendoza-Azpur, DDS, MSc/Erik Valdivia, DDS, MSc/Yong-Han Koo, DDS/David M. Kim, DDS, DMSc

PMID: 29447307
DOI: 10.11607/prd.3558

The goal of this investigation was to evaluate the bone-to-implant contact (BIC) of dental implants placed into fresh extraction sockets without pre-existing periapical pathology. When the extraction sites exhibited a gap distance of > 2 mm, autogenous bone harvested from surrounding surgical sites was grafted to fill that gap with no barrier membranes. All implants were clinically stable and successful at 6 months postoperative. The histologic examination demonstrated an average of 66.2% BIC for all five immediately placed dental implants. The results of this study provided sufficient histologic and histomorphometric knowledge to support immediate dental implant placement in carefully selected clinical scenarios.

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