Mandibular Implants in Elderly Patients

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Status: Completed

Conditions: Edentulous Complete Denture Wearers

Treatments: Device: Implant placement; Procedure: Conventional reline

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01928004

MDGPA_02

ITI_458_2006 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate denture satisfaction following the conversion of existing mandibular complete dentures to implant-overdentures (IOD) in very old edentulous patients who depend on help for activities of daily living (ADL) and evaluate secondary endpoints such as functional, structural, nutritional, cognitive and patient-centered outcome measures.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 75 years or older
• living institutionalized or receiving help for the ADL
• edentulous
• wearing complete dentures
• the lower denture had to cause discomfort to the degree that the patients were seeking treatment

Exclusion criteria

• severe clinical depression
• dementia
• poorly controlled diabetes
• immunosuppression
• treatment with bisphosphonates
• condition precluding the surgical intervention for implant placement

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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45 participants in 2 patient groups

implant placement

Experimental group

Description:

insertion of 2 interforaminal mandibular implants and conversion of the lower complete denture to an implant-overdenture

Treatment:

Device: Implant placement

denture reline

Active Comparator group

Description:

conventional reline of mandibular complete denture

Treatment:

Procedure: Conventional reline