Performance of MicroTextured Dental Implants

Partially Edentulous Jaw Clinical Trial

Official title: A Randomized Clinical Trial to Assess the Performance of MicroTextured Dental Implants With or Without a Machined Collar

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The study will compare initial peri-implant bone healing and longitudinal osseointegration between a fully microtextured dental implant and an analogous implant with a smooth machined collar.

The investigators hypothesize the fully textured implant will result in less peri-implant crestal bone resorption than the implant with a machined collar.

Clinical Trial Description

Zimmer dental has developed a microtextured tapered screw-vent implant design with a titanium skin that has been grit-blasted with hydroxyapatite particles resulting in an overall roughened surface, which, when compared to an implant with a machined (smooth) collar (narrow band around the top of the device) surface is thought to increase the apposition of osseous tissue integration and to promote epithelial attachment to the implant device. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Jaw, Edentulous
• Partially Edentulous Jaw

• NCT number: NCT01821417
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 2011
• Completion date: October 2015