Title Dental Implants Placed Following Grafting in Areas with Severe Bone Resorption Can Be Successful
Clinical Question For a patient with severe ridge resorption needing an implant, would guided bone regeneration (GBR) allow for a high likelihood of implant success and survival?
Clinical Bottom Line For patients with bone dimensions insufficient for placement of a dental implant, guided bone regeneration is a valuable approach to allow placement of implants that have levels of success approaching that of standard (nonaugmented) implant placement.
Best Evidence  
PubMed ID Author / Year Patient Group Study type
(level of evidence)
22542079Clementini/20128 Studies-147 patientsSystematic review of randomized trials
Key resultsThe survival and success rates for implants placed following guided bone regeneration in severely resorbed alveolar ridges approached that of conventional implant placement; however, these rates did show high levels of variability. The implant survival rate ranged from 93.75% to 100%, with success rates reported from 61.5% to 100%. This is based on 8 studies evaluating 147 patients.
Evidence Search (("dental implants"[MeSH Terms] OR ("dental"[All Fields] AND "implants"[All Fields]) OR "dental implants"[All Fields] OR ("dental"[All Fields] AND "implant"[All Fields]) OR "dental implant"[All Fields]) AND guided[All Fields] AND ("bone regeneration"[MeSH Terms] OR ("bone"[All Fields] AND "regeneration"[All Fields]) OR "bone regeneration"[All Fields])) AND systematic[sb]
Comments on
The Evidence
Validity: The systemic review identified only a limited number of studies (8) with sufficient information reported to allow inclusion in the review. Seven of the eight studies were found to have a high to moderate risk of bias. Perspective: Based on this systematic review implant therapy represents a reasonable approach to care following successful ridge augmentation. This review did not specifically address the success of the guided bone regeneration procedure itself for severely atrophic ridges. This issue represents a separate level of risk that would need to be considered prior to selecting this treatment option.
Applicability This information can benefit a practitioner when treatment planning for a patient in need of implants and whose available bone is compromised by severe ridge resorption.
Specialty (General Dentistry) (Oral Surgery) (Periodontics) (Prosthodontics) (Restorative Dentistry)
Keywords Implants, Bone grafting, Bone resorption
ID# 2701
Date of submission 03/25/2014
E-mail Chenausky@livemail.uthscsa.edu
Author Ryan Chenausky
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Faculty mentor Thomas Oates, DMD, PhD
Faculty mentor e-mail Oates@uthscsa.edu
   
Basic Science Rationale
(Mechanisms that may account for and/or explain the clinical question, i.e. is the answer to the clinical question consistent with basic biological, physical and/or behavioral science principles, laws and research?)
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Comments and Evidence-Based Updates on the CAT
(FOR PRACTICING DENTISTS', FACULTY, RESIDENTS and/or STUDENTS COMMENTS ON PUBLISHED CATs)
by Mary Namy (San Antonio, TX) on 09/30/2022
I conducted a Pubmed search on this topic in Sep 2022 and found a more recent publication PubMed ID: 28916205 that further strengthens the conclusion of this CAT