IADR Abstract Archives
Easy-graft® CRYSTAL Bone Grafting for Guided-Bone-Regeneration around Dental Implants
Objectives: Easy-graft® CRYSTAL, is an alloplast consisting of coated, biphasic bone graft granules (40% β –TCP and 60% Hydroxyapatite). It has unique handling capacity based on an extremely thin coating of the graft granules with polylactide. When the material is soaked in blood in bone defects it hardens in few minutes to form stable porous scaffold.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the postsurgical implant survival and success where easy-graft CRYSTAL was used for Guided Bone Regeneration around dental implants.
Methods: For this prospective 12-month-follow-up case series, ten patients with a need for implant placement in a site that required simultaneous bone augmentation were recruited.
Patients were evaluated at the day of the surgery and 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months post-operatively. Implant survival, and radiographic bone levels were evaluated using standardized periapical radiographs. Wound Healing Score (WHS) at the study site was also recorded.
Results: Overall, 10 patients received 13 implants in this study. In nine out of the 13 implants, a membrane was used in conjunction with the bone grafting; 5 polylactide barriers and 4 collagen barriers. All surgeries were uneventful and all implants survived after 12 months. The mean WHS was 1.4±0.5 at 2 weeks and 1±0.0 at 3 months. Bone levels showed stability over time with an average bone loss/remodeling of 0.19±0.6 mm from implant placement to the last follow-up at 12 months. Patients responded very well to the treatment and no adverse effects or post-operative infections were recorded.
Conclusions: Implant placement with simultaneous bone grafting using easy-graft® CRYSTAL, was shown to be a viable and safe procedure with stable clinical and radiographic results over the follow-up period. Further long-term studies are warranted, however, the combination of the ease of handling and the favourable results are promising.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the postsurgical implant survival and success where easy-graft CRYSTAL was used for Guided Bone Regeneration around dental implants.
Methods: For this prospective 12-month-follow-up case series, ten patients with a need for implant placement in a site that required simultaneous bone augmentation were recruited.
Patients were evaluated at the day of the surgery and 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months post-operatively. Implant survival, and radiographic bone levels were evaluated using standardized periapical radiographs. Wound Healing Score (WHS) at the study site was also recorded.
Results: Overall, 10 patients received 13 implants in this study. In nine out of the 13 implants, a membrane was used in conjunction with the bone grafting; 5 polylactide barriers and 4 collagen barriers. All surgeries were uneventful and all implants survived after 12 months. The mean WHS was 1.4±0.5 at 2 weeks and 1±0.0 at 3 months. Bone levels showed stability over time with an average bone loss/remodeling of 0.19±0.6 mm from implant placement to the last follow-up at 12 months. Patients responded very well to the treatment and no adverse effects or post-operative infections were recorded.
Conclusions: Implant placement with simultaneous bone grafting using easy-graft® CRYSTAL, was shown to be a viable and safe procedure with stable clinical and radiographic results over the follow-up period. Further long-term studies are warranted, however, the combination of the ease of handling and the favourable results are promising.