Low Level Laser (LED) Use to Increase Dental Implant Stability and Post Operative Analgesia

Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Implant; Analgesia

Treatments: Device: OsseoPulse device (Light emitting diode technology)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01097499

MSH-Biolux2010

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study hypothesis: Low level laser (LED) will reduce initial bone resorption and improve primary stability of dental implant. It will also reduces post operative pain compared to patient without treatment

Implant osseointegration depends on many factors including biocompatibility of implant materials, design, surface, surgical access, patient conditions, biomechanical status, and lack of primary stability.

Several in vivo and in vitro studies showed the healing effect of low level laser therapy (LLLT) on bone by decreasing the initial bone resorption postoperatively and increasing the primary stability of the implant. It has also shown to have an analgesic effect intraorally when used post intraoral surgical procedures. The exact mechanism is unclear despite the fact that many hypothesis has been proposed.

In our study, our goal is to present, in a randomized standardized clinical trial, the effect of LLLT on post operative implant stability assessed by resonance frequency analysis (RFA). We will assess the subjective measures of postoperative pain using visual analog scale (VAS).

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1. English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• 1. Systemic factors: Diabetes, systemic immune disease, smoking (non-smoking is not absolute, but preferable.)
• 2. Local factors: No immediate implants, No grafting to the site, No other implants at separate location in the mouth around the same treatment period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

LED application

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients in this group will be given the LED device and will be instructed on how and when to use it. They will receive LED treatment to the surgical site preoperatively by the surgeon for 20 minutes. Then, patients in this group will apply LED at home to the surgical site postoperatively at the day of surgery and for the following 9 postoperative days.

Treatment:

Device: OsseoPulse device (Light emitting diode technology)

No LED application

No Intervention group

Description:

These patients will receive conventional dental implant treatment without the application of the LED therapy.