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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schwarz, Frank
• Hegewald, Andrea
• John, Gordon
• Sahm, Narja
• Becker, Jürgen

Titel

Four-year follow-up of combined surgical therapy of advanced peri-implantitis evaluating two methods of surface decontamination

Ist Teil von

• Journal of clinical periodontology, 2013-10, Vol.40 (10), p.962-967

Ort / Verlag

United States: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Access via Wiley Online Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Objectives To investigate the impact of two surface decontamination methods on the long‐term outcomes following combined surgical resective/regenerative therapy of advanced peri‐implantitis lesions. Material and Methods Seventeen patients (n = 17 combined supra‐ and intrabony‐defects) completed the 48 months follow‐up observation following access flap surgery, granulation tissue removal and implantoplasty at bucally and supracrestally exposed implant parts. The remaining unmodified implant surface areas were randomly treated using either (i) an Er:YAG laser (ERL), or (ii) plastic curets + cotton pellets + sterile saline (CPS), and augmented with a natural bone mineral + collagen membrane. Results At 48 months, CPS‐treated sites tended to reveal higher reductions in mean BOP (CPS: 85.2 ± 16.4% versus ERL: 71.6 ± 24.9%) and CAL values (CPS: 1.5 ± 2.0 mm versus ERL: 1.2 ± 2.0 mm) when compared with the ERL group. In both groups, clinical outcomes were not directly influenced by the initial defect configuration. Conclusion The 4‐year clinical outcomes obtained following combined surgical resective/regenerative therapy of advanced peri‐implantitis were not influenced by the method of surface decontamination.