Osteotome-Mediated Sinus Lift without Grafting Material: A Review of Literature and a Technique Proposal

Table 2

Bone height before and after surgery.

Study	Mean implant length	Mean ± SD (range) before surgery	Mean ± SD after surgery
Fermergård and Åstrand [14]	10,89	6,3 ± 0,3	10,7 ± 0,3
Tetsch et al. [15]	11,50	8,2	3,3
Bruschi et al. [16]	13,57	1–3	13,28 ± 1,23
Gabbert et al. [17]	10,29	NE	NE
Jurisic et al. [18]	10,72	NE	NE
Nedir et al. [19]	9,60	5,4 ± 2,3	10,3 ± 2,2
Nedir et al. [20]	8,37	2,5 ± 1,7	6,3 ± 1,5
Cavicchia et al. [21]	12,30	NE	NE
Diss et al. [12]	10,51	6,5 ± 1,7	9,8 ± 1,5
Schmidlin et al. [22]	8,60	5,0 ± 1,5	8,6 ± 1,3
Leblebicioglu et al. [23]	>11 mm	7 ± 1,3	10,9 ± 1,7
Fugazzotto [24]	9,16	NE	NE
Volpe et al. [25]	NR	7.2 ± 1.5	10.0 ± 1.0
Bruschi et al. [27]	13,50	6.02 ± 0,75	7.99 ± 1.16
Fornell et al. [26]	10,00	5.6 ± 2.1	8.6 ± 2.1