Active clinical trials for "Jaw, Edentulous"

This descriptive longitudinal study aimed to investigate the retention force of implant-supported overdentures applied to edentulous individuals at Marmara University Faculty of Dentistry, examine the retention force and its time-dependent change, and evaluate patient satisfaction.

According to data from the World Health Organization, approximately 160 million people worldwide are edentulous. The incidence increases with age, and the proportion of edentulous patients is higher in the population aged 60 and above. Loss of teeth or edentulism can affect facial appearance, causing people to feel self-conscious and loss confidence in social situations, and even lead to psychological illnesses. Therefore, edentulous patients not only pay close attention to the recovery of oral function but also attach great importance to facial contour improvement. For a long time, due to technological limitations, clinicians have been unable to depict the changes in facial contour after implant placement for patients before surgery. However, with the development of artificial intelligence technology, deep learning-based methods for predicting soft tissue facial deformation have made this mission a possibility. This study established a multi-modal dataset for edentulous patients before and after implant restoration to lay the foundation for predicting facial contour changes after implant treatment. A graph generative adversarial network based on multi-modal data was proposed to achieve fast and high-precision facial contour prediction. To address the common challenges of slow computation and excessive computational resource consumption in current triangular mesh deformation simulation methods, this project innovatively proposed a graph generative adversarial network that uses multi-modal data and incorporates self-attention mechanisms to achieve fast and high-precision facial contour prediction for edentulous patients after implant restoration.

GM Zygomatic implant is intended to be surgically placed in the posterior region of the maxilla and zygoma. It is indicated for multiple prostheses in case of severe resorption in the maxilla and total edentulism (situations in which the installation of convectional implants is contraindicated). The objective of the study is to confirm the long-term safety and clinical performance of GM Zygomatic implants and GM Zygomatic abutments in daily dental practice setting, by means of a prospective collection of clinical data concerning the success and survival rates of these devices. Devices will be used according to standard routine in daily practice, according to all indications as specified by the manufacturer in the instructions for use (IFU). Ten patients will be followed for 36 months and monitored for Adverse Events by the Investigators until the last protocol-related procedure of a patient is completed.

Today, tooth- or implant-supported single crowns and short-span fixed partial dentures can be fabricated on the basis of an intraoral scan, but the scanning accuracy decreases with increasing length of the jaw section to be captured. An accurate scan is also made more difficult by edentulous jaw sections, as these provide the scanner with few landmarks for proper three-dimensional image composition. With respect to both edentulous and edentulous patients with dental implants, the currently available literature does not provide a firm basis for deciding whether such patients can already be scanned with sufficient accuracy. It is considered problematic in this context that the findings on digital impression accuracy, regardless of whether teeth or implants have been scanned, are based almost exclusively on the results of in vitro studies. Conclusions about the accuracy of intraoral scanners under clinical conditions with moving patients and limited accessibility to the structures to be imaged, especially in the presence of blood, saliva or sulcus fluid, are extremely limited based on these data. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the clinical scanning accuracy of two current intraoral scanning systems for the three-dimensional acquisition of the position of two interforaminal dental implants in the edentulous mandible. The influence of artificial landmarks to achieve increased scan accuracy will also be tested.

It is necessary to generate more evidence on the outcome of contemporary protocols for full-arch rehabilitations supported by implants in immediate function in areas with limited quantity and density bone. This research project aims to investigate the outcome of fixed prosthetic restorations supported by implants in immediate function for full-arch rehabilitation through the All-on-4 concept contemporary protocol, specifically: implant survival and success, prosthetic survival, marginal bone level and marginal bone level changes, soft tissue health parameters (Plaque index, Bleeding index, Pocket depth), incidence of biological and mechanical complications. A prospective cohort study design will be used in the investigation. The sample of this study is estimated to consist in 43 patients rehabilitated with full-arch fixed prosthetic rehabilitations supported by implants in immediate function (All-on-4 concept) with 144 dental implants. The cohort will be evaluated between baseline and 3 years of follow-up.

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the long-term survival rate of individual implants and prostheses when treating edentulous upper jaws of poor bone quality with Fixture MicroThread™ (Micro-Macro). Clinical study recruitment was stopped in year 2000 due to a decision to modify the product under study. This was a result of feedback regarding the subjective feeling during the installation procedure. There were no safety concerns w/r to the study products. Patients already included and treated in the study were monitored for the full duration of the study in accordance with the clinical study protocol.

This will be a prospective, randomized, observational study. All implants will be placed in either the maxilla or mandible and loaded within 2 months with a provisional or definitive prosthesis. The implants will be evaluated yearly for 2 years.

The Neodent® Zirconia Implant is designed for the treatment of oral endosteal implantation for the functional and aesthetic rehabilitation, allowing for treatment of patients with different bone qualities. The objective of the study is to assess the success and survival rates of implantable devices of the Zirconia System, in order to confirm the long-term safety and clinical performance of implants and abutments of the Zirconia System in daily dental practice setting. Devices will be used according to standard routine in daily practice, according to manufacturer indications in the IFU. Patients will be followed for 36 months after implant placement.

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the long-term survival rate of implants and prostheses when treating totally edentulous upper jaws with Fixture MicroThread (Micro-Macro) using a one-stage surgical procedure. Clinical study recruitment was stopped in year 2000 due to a decision to modify the product under study. This was a result of feedback regarding the subjective feeling during the installation procedure. There were no safety concerns w/r to the study products. Patients already included and treated in the study were monitored for the full duration of the study in accordance with the clinical study protocol.

This is a randomized open label trial that evaluates the efficacy of an autologous platelet concentrate (APC) in pre-implantation reconstruction of maxilla. The sinus occlusion will be performed under general anaesthetic. On one side by the usual technique with hipbone transplant, the other side will be restored with APC mixed with autologous bone tissue removed from the surgery site. The side selection will be determined by the randomization.