Background: Early implant placement with contour augmentation could provide support and volume to the hard and soft tissues. Herein, we aimed to ascertain whether freeze-dried bone allograft (FDBA) shares with deproteinized bovine bone material (DBBM) the results for esthetic outcomes for anterior teeth and stability of peri-implant facial bone thickness and height by conducting guided bone regeneration.
Methods: Forty-eight patients were randomly assigned into two groups. In the control group, autogenous bone chips was used to cover the exposed implant surface, followed by a layer of DBBM. This graft combination was then covered with two layers of collagen membrane. In the test group, the exposed implant surface was covered with FDBA, combined with the collagen membrane. During this study, the hard tissue dimensional changes were measured at 12-months post-implant loading by using cone-beam computed tomography.
Results: At 12 months postoperatively, all 48 implants were clinically successful. The mean thickness of facial bone walls ranged from 1.6 to 2.45 mm at the three levels of measurement in the control group and ranged from 1.6 to 2.10 mm in the test group. The mean facial vertical bone wall peak (IP-FC) after loading 1 year presented with values of 0.8 mm (range, 0.0 to 1.25 mm) and 0.5 mm (range, 0.1 to 1.1 mm) coronal to the implant platform in control and test implants, respectively. There were no significant differences in facial bone wall thickness and IP-FC between groups.
Conclusions: This study demonstrated that autogenous bone chips plus DBBM or FDBA showed similar outcome of peri-implant buccal bone stability in early implant placement after 1 year.
Keywords: bone graft(s); guided bone regeneration; implantology.
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