Ridge Preservation With New Class of Osteoplastic Materials (RP)

This is an interventional treatment trial for Tooth Extraction focused on measuring tooth, extraction, alveolar socket, socket preservation, ridge preservation, bone graft, tricalcium phosphate, octacalcium phosphate, xenograft, bio oss Read More

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient must have voluntarily signed the informed consent
• Males and females, 18 years to 75 years of age
• Patient needs single tooth extraction in mandibular or maxillary incisor or pre-molar region and would benefit from prosthetic reconstruction with a dental implant
• Patients must be committed to the study and must sign informed consent
• Patient in good general health as documented by self assessment

Exclusion Criteria:

Systemic exclusion criteria:

• Patient who has any known diseases (not including controlled diabetes mellitus), infections or recent surgical procedures within 30 days of study initiation
• Female patient who are pregnant or lactating or of child bearing potential not using acceptable methods of birth control (hormonal, barriers or abstinence
• Patient who are on chronic treatment (i.e., two weeks or more) with any medication known to affect oral status (e.g., phenytoin, dihydropyridine calcium antagonists, cyclosporine, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) within one month of baseline visit
• Patient who knowingly has HIV or Hepatitis
• Alcoholism or chronically drug abuse causing systemic compromisation
• Patient who is a heavy smoker (>10/cigarettes per day).

Local exclusion criteria

• Uncontrolled or untreated periodontal disease
• Patient who has a full mouth plaque level >30 % at the enrolment visit
• History of local radiation therapy
• Presence of oral lesions (such as ulceration, malignancy)
• Persistent intraoral infection
• Patients presenting clinical and radiological signs and symptoms of maxillary sinus disease
• Patient presents an acute endodontic lesion in the test tooth or in the neighbouring areas to the experimental procedure (sites with presence of an asymptomatic chronic lesion are eligible)