Prognostic factors on periapical surgery: a systematic review

BACKGROUND: Analyze the most important prognostic factors when performing periapical surgery and compare the success rates of distinct authors. INTRODUCTION: Periapical surgery is an approach to treat non-healing periapical lesions and it should be viewed as an extension of endodontic treatment and not as a separate entity. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A search of articles published in Cochrane, PubMed (MEDLINE) and Scopus was conducted with the key words "prognostic factors", "prognosis", "periapical surgery", "endodontic surgery" and "surgical endodontic treatment". The inclusion criteria were articles including at least 10 patients, published in English, for the last 10 years. The exclusion criteria were nonhuman studies and case reports. RESULTS: 33 articles were selected from 321 initially found. Ten articles from 33 were excluded and finally the systematic review included 23 articles: 1 metaanalysis, 1 systematic review, 2 randomized clinical trials, 6 reviews, 12 prospective studies and 1 retrospective study. They were stratified according to their level of scientific evidence using the SORT criteria. CONCLUSIONS: Factors associated with a better outcome of periapical surgery are patients ≤45 years old, upper anterior or premolar teeth, ≤10 sized lesions, non cystic lesions, absence of preoperative signs and symptoms, lesions without periodontal involvement, teeth with an adequate root-filling length, MTA as root-end filling material, uniradicular teeth, absence of perforating lesions, apical resection < 3 mm, teeth not associated to an oroantral fistula and teeth with only one periapical surgery

The effect of age, gender, and insertion site on marginal bone loss around endosseous implants: results from a 3-year trial with premium implant system.

OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to evaluate bone changes around endosseous implants in partially edentulous patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 632 two-stage implants were placed in 252 patients. The implants had straight emergence profile, ZirTi surface, 3.3 to 5 mm diameter, and 8.5 to 13 mm length. Bone levels were assessed on orthopantomography immediately after surgery and after 36 months and marginal bone loss (MBL) was calculated from their difference. RESULTS: Cumulative survival rate was 98.73%. Overall MBL was 0.8 mm ± 0.03 (mean ± SEM). Higher MBL was observed around implants in the maxilla than in the mandible (P < 0.007). A relation between implant diameter and MBL (P < 0.0001) was observed in male and, more limitedly, female patients. Older patients had higher MBL in the maxilla, but not in the mandible (P < 0.0001). MBL progressively increased with age in male patients, but reached a peak already in the 50-60 years age group in the female subset (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The overall MBL is consistent with the available literature. Site difference and patient age and gender appear to significantly affect MBL, representing important factors to be considered during implant placement.

Revisión bibliográfica de Implantología Bucofacial del año 2011. Segunda parte / Bibliographic review of Oral Implantology of year 2011. Second Part

La gran diversidad de fuentes de información que nos proporciona la literatura científica junto al escaso tiempo de que disponen los profesionales de la Odontología para consultarlas, ha motivado a los autores a efectuar una revisión de la literatura científica publicada a lo largo del año 2011 en el campo de la Implantología Bucofacial. Con este fin se han agrupado los diferentes artículos indexados consultados en distintos apartados (elevación del seno maxilar, cirugía guiada y cirugía mínimamente invasiva, regeneración ósea guiada, implantes cigomáticos y factores de crecimiento), con el fin de facilitar una buena puesta al día

The diversity existing in the scientific literature information sources and the lack of available time to consult them, have encouraged the authors of this paper to carry out a review of the scientific literature published in year 2011 regarding Oral Implantology. Thus, we classified the articles into different categories (sinus lift, guided surgery and minimally invasive surgery, guided bone regeneration, zygomatic implants and growing factors), then a more comprehensive updating can be made

Prótese total híbrida na clínica odontológica / Hybrid full denture in the dental clinc

A prótese total híbrida, que apoiada sobre dentes, quer sobre raízes ou implantes, é um tratamento protético preventivo de suma importância na clínica odontológica, pois, além de preservar o tecido ósseo, estabiliza a prótese e conta com a propriocepçäo, que auxilia no aumento da eficiência mastigatória