Status:

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Survival and Success Rates of External- and Internal- Connection Dental Implants Placed Within the United Kingdom Armed Forces.

Lead Sponsor:

Defence Primary Health Care, UK

Collaborating Sponsors:

University of Birmingham

Conditions:

Dental Implant Failed

Tooth Loss

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

This is a retrospective cohort study that evaluates the survival (Outcome 1) of dental implant systems (external connection (Cohort 1) and internal connection (Cohort 2) and the effectiveness of maint...

Detailed Description

Dental care to the United Kingdom Armed Forces (UKAF) is provided by Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) Dental, which incorporates a Managed Clinical Network (MCN) to co-ordinate and treat complex rest...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • • Military patients who had dental implants placed at DCRD between the period of 01 Jan 2017 and 31 Dec 2023.
  • Patients over the age of 18 (female) and 19 (male, to allow for recommended lower age limits for implant placement due to facial growth).
  • Healthy and medically compromised patients (diabetes mellitus type-2 (DM2), systemic steroid usage, immune-supressed patients, smoking habits).
  • Implants placed with concomitant grafting or in a site where socket-preservation procedure completed.
  • Patients with periodontal health as well as history of periodontal disease.
  • Dental Implant types to include Nobel Biocare; Parallel, Active, Branemark and SpeedyGroovy.
  • Implants with immediate, early, delayed and late implant placement pathways.
  • Implants restored with single unit and multi-unit fixed prostheses.
  • Minimum of 12-month follow-up data available.
  • Pre-operative long cone periapical (LCPA) radiographs available to view at surgical placement, implant restoration and follow-up (12-month).

Exclusion

  • • Implants placed outside of DPHC.
  • Implants placed in sites where a block-grafts or sinus floor elevation procedure completed.
  • Implants supporting removable prostheses.
  • Implants placed prior to- or after- closure of trial period.
  • Patients under the age of 18 (female) and 19 (male).
  • No follow-up LCPA.
  • Patients that died before pathway/ follow-up was completed.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 2 2024

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

May 2 2025

Estimated Enrollment :

438 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06554080

Start Date

May 2 2024

End Date

May 2 2025

Last Update

August 14 2024

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Defence Centre of Rehabiliative Dentistry

Aldershot, Surrey, United Kingdom, GU11 2LG