Application of a Cone-Beam Computed Tomography-Based Index for Evaluating Surgical Sites Prior to Sinus Lift Procedures—A Pilot Study

Table 3

The postsurgical parameters and scoring pattern in the SDS checklist.

Postsurgical parameters	Findings	Difficulty score (DS)
1. Postoperative complications include pain, swelling, edema, infection of the surgical site and sinus, sinusitis, bone resorption, bleeding, oral and nasal ecchymosis and haematoma (haemosinus), emphysema, wound dehiscence, incisional breakdown, the loss of graft, dislocation, oroantral fistula, and temporary or permanent palatal numbness	Occurred	1
	Did not occur	0
Surgical difficulty score (SDS)