Research Article

Fixed Full Arches Supported by Tapered Implants with Knife-Edge Thread Design and Nanostructured, Calcium-Incorporated Surface: A Short-Term Prospective Clinical Study

Table 4

Bone loss around the implants at different follow-up controls, in mm (implant-level).

Baseline- 1 yearBaseline- 3 years
; mean (SD); median; CI 95%; mean (SD); median; CI 95%

All implants213; 0.21 (±0.15); 0.18; 0.19–0.23213; 0.25 (±0.11); 0.25; 0.24–0.26
Immediate postextraction implants144; 0.20 (±0.14);
0.15; 0.18–0.22
144; 0.23 (±0.12);
0.24; 0.22–0.24
Implants in healed ridges69; 0.23 (±0.17);
0.2; 0.19–0.27
69; 0.28 (±0.09);
0.29; 0.26–0.3

= number of the implants examined.