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Volume 42 , Issue 1
January/February 2022
Pages 35–41

Finding Better Ways to Perform Graftless Full Rehabilitation of a Compromised Maxilla: New Platform-Switched Zygomatic Implants Placed Extra-Sinus Improve Prosthetic Restoration—A Preliminary Study of 25 Cases and 85 Implants

Paweł Aleksandrowicz, MD, DDS, PhD/Marta Kusa-Podkańska, DDS, PhD/Andrea Borgonovo, MD, PhD/Witold Tomkiewicz, MD/Bartłomiej Szczodry, DDS/Lidia Kotuła, MD, PhD/Wojciech Popowski, DDS, PhD/Joanna Wysokińska-Miszczuk, DDS, PhD

PMID: 35060965
DOI: 10.11607/prd.5378

Standard treatment for full rehabilitation of compromised maxillae with regular implants includes sinus elevation grafting, a minimum of two to three surgeries, and a minimum treatment time of 9 to 15 months. Zygomatic implants are a viable alternative. However, prosthetic restorations have been compromised due to abutments emerging on the palate. The purpose of this study was to find ways that abutments will emerge on the ridge (occlusal surface). The presented results show it can be done if zygomatic implants are placed in the sinus wall (extra-sinus) and use an internal, conical connection with platform-switching and 45-degree abutments. Thus, marginal tissue prognosis and primary stability may also be improved by adding coronal threads to an implant design. These improvements, if confirmed in longer follow-ups and further studies, may encourage more graftless rehabilitations of severely compromised maxillae, reducing the number of surgeries and overall treatment time.

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