Dental Implant Supported Removable Dental Prostheses

Catholic University (KU) of Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Implant Complication; Prosthesis Survival

Treatments: Procedure: immediate loading; Device: Ankylos implant; Procedure: conventional loading; Procedure: placement of implants

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03041597

B32220096198

Details and patient eligibility

About

To prospectively monitor the survival rate of Ankylos® dental implants, comparing delayed versus immediate loading, using abutments with the SynCone® concept for implant-supported detachable dental prosthesis (ISDDP) in the edentulous upper jaw.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Provision of informed consent
• Extraction sockets should have healed at least 4 months
• Sufficient bone volume to place six implants in the maxilla
• No previous bone augmentation procedures
• The mandible can have any kind of dentition as long as a well-distributed contact relationship with the new prosthesis in the maxilla can be established.
• Accepting to comply with study procedures

Exclusion criteria

• Physical or psychological disorders prohibiting implant treatment
• Heavy smoking (>10 cigarettes/day)
• Present alcohol and/or drug abuse
• Physical handicap that may interfere with the ability to perform oral hygiene

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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15 participants in 2 patient groups

Immediate loading

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: placement of implants

Device: Ankylos implant

Procedure: immediate loading

delayed loading

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: placement of implants

Device: Ankylos implant

Procedure: conventional loading