Intraoral radiography lacks accuracy for the assessment of peri-implant bone level - a controlled clinical study.

CONCLUSIONS: Bone sounding without flap elevation was the best predictor of peri-implant bone level, whereas intraoral radiography was the most inferior. Consequently, peri-implantitis may be under-diagnosed if examination is only based on radiographs. Conflict-of-interest statement: Prof Hugo De Bruyn is associated with education and research collaboration agreements with Dentsply Sirona and Southern Implants, on behalf of Ghent University. Prof Cosyn has a collaboration agreement with Nobel Biocare. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
PMID: 29234750 [PubMed - in process]

Source: European Journal of Oral Implantology - December 15, 2017 Category: Dentistry Authors: Christiaens V, Jacobs R, Dierens M, Vervaeke S, De Bruyn H, Koole S, Cosyn J Tags: Eur J Oral Implantol Source Type: research