Implant Placement With Simultaneous Gum Grafting

University of Louisville (UOFL)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Edentulous

Treatments: Procedure: connective tissue autograft; Procedure: connective tissue allograft

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01431144

11.0355

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a comparison of implant placed and simultaneously grafted with either autogenous connective tissue or a connective tissue allograft. The objective is to determine the change in soft tissue thickness and determine if a better result is obtained with the autograft or the allograft. The hypothesis is that there will be no difference in soft tissue thickness over the implant between the autograft and the allograft technique.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• One edentulous site bordered by 2 teeth needing a dental implant

Exclusion criteria

• Systemic diseases that affect the periodontium
• Previous head and neck radiation
• Smoking more that 1/2 pack per day
• Requires prophylactic antibiotics
• Allergy to meds used in study
• Previous chemotherapy
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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27 participants in 2 patient groups

Connective tissue autograft

Active Comparator group

Description:

A connective tissue autograft harvested from the palate was grafted onto the facial of a simultaneously placed dental implant and soft tissue thickness was measured at baseline and Time 4.

Treatment:

Procedure: connective tissue autograft

connective tissue allograft

Experimental group

Description:

An acellular dermal matrix allograft was grafted on the facial surface of a simultaneously placed dental implant and soft tissue thickness was measured at baseline and Time 4.

Treatment:

Procedure: connective tissue allograft