Curated news from the periodontal and implant literature
A weekly digest of peer-reviewed, open-access research in periodontology, dental implantology, and peri-implant medicine. Articles are selected and summarized by Dr. Ernesto Bruschi — periodontist, implantologist, and oral surgeon.
Rapone B, Ferrara E, Tomarelli F
How many implants for a full-arch? Tilted or axial? Which prosthetic material, and what maintenance keeps peri-implantitis away? On these everyday questions practice is still heterogeneous. To bring order, an Italian Con...
Read more →Roccuzzo A, Li Y, Salvi GE
A tooth with a deep intrabony defect, pathologic migration, probing depth of 7 mm or more: the classic candidate for extraction. This prospective study asks whether, two decades on, that tooth can instead be kept. Forty-...
Read more →Lin L, Ren Y, Zhu E
Short implants promise to sidestep bone grafting in the atrophic jaw. The open question has always been time: do they hold at ten years? This systematic review and meta-analysis gathered randomized controlled trials (RCT...
Read more →Son SH, Lim KO, Han SH
Guided bone regeneration (GBR) often hinges on the membrane: it must hold space, stay where it is put, and ideally not need a second surgery to come out. This prospective single-arm study tested a three-dimensional prefo...
Read more →Todorovic J, Joda T, Eyüboğlu TF
A connective tissue graft (CTG) under a pontic builds back ridge contour and makes the bridge look like it grows from gum rather than rests on it. The aesthetic gain is rarely disputed; what stays unclear is whether it l...
Read more →Pelser D, Schepers M, Abou-Ayash S
Implant-supported fixed complete dentures restore the fully edentulous jaw with impressive reliability, but reliability is not the same as freedom from trouble. This retrospective cohort followed 91 such prostheses on 49...
Read more →Charde P, Tan BL, Matoug-Elwerfelli M
Periodontal disease is usually framed as an adult problem, but it begins quietly in childhood. This scoping review, conducted under PRISMA-ScR guidelines and registered on the Open Science Framework, gathered the scatter...
Read more →Ye Z, Zhang Y, Feng Z
The socket shield technique preserves the buccal bone and gingival architecture in the aesthetic zone by deliberately leaving a fragment of the patient's own root in place when an immediate implant is inserted. It works ...
Read more →Kniha K, Rink L, Ooms M
Zirconia implants are marketed on aesthetics and a metal-free promise, but how do they actually perform against titanium over the medium term? This 3-year split-mouth randomized controlled trial put the two materials in ...
Read more →Qian J, Zi-Zheng W, Teng X
Transcrestal sinus floor elevation is a delicate, largely blind procedure: the surgeon lifts the Schneiderian membrane through a narrow osteotomy with limited direct vision, and a perforation can compromise the graft. Th...
Read more →Dolińska E, Starosz A, Grubczak K et al.
This randomized clinical trial addressed a focused but clinically relevant question: does the adjunctive application of an amino acid-buffered sodium hypochlorite gel (NaOCl/AA) during subgingival instrumentation provide...
Read more →Malcangi G, Inchingolo AD, Marinelli G et al.
Platelet concentrates — PRP, PRF, A-PRF, L-PRF and their variants — have been increasingly integrated into regenerative protocols for alveolar and periodontal defects, yet their actual clinical advantage over conventiona...
Read more →Zeng T, Yu H, Xu H
Free gingival grafts (FGGs) remain the gold-standard procedure for augmenting keratinized tissue width around implants and teeth — but the palatal donor site is a well-known source of postoperative morbidity. The wound l...
Read more →Canullo L, Pesce P, Covani U et al.
Plasma activation of titanium surfaces is an established strategy for enhancing osseointegration, but its effect on the soft tissue interface — arguably just as critical for long-term implant health — has received far le...
Read more →Lupi SM, Agolli J, Isola G
Clinical question: How do titanium dental implants perform over the very long term? Most evidence stops at five or ten years. This systematic review and meta-analysis pushed the horizon to twenty. Methodology: The autho...
Read more →Shahi S, Jalali P, Jabbari S
Clinical question: Can patients with diabetes mellitus receive dental implants with confidence, or does the disease undermine the result? This systematic review weighed survival, peri-implant health, the role of glycemic...
Read more →Yao E, Liu Y, Xu J
Clinical question: What molecular switches tell a periosteal stem cell to become bone? In the craniofacial skeleton — where the mandible is a daily concern for oral surgeons — that question is more than academic. This st...
Read more →Huang Y, Hu Y, Zhao Y
Clinical question: Periodontitis and ulcerative colitis (UC) often travel together, each seeming to worsen the other. Is the link merely an association, or does gut disease causally drive bone loss in the mouth? This stu...
Read more →Abdelsameaa SE, Alruwaili AM, El-Gohary N
Clinical question: When performing guided bone regeneration (GBR) alongside immediate implant placement in the posterior mandible, which barrier membrane works better — an autogenous dentine-derived barrier membrane (DDB...
Read more →Raabe C, Fonseca M, Roccuzzo A et al.
Over two decades of implant function, does the type of prosthetic restoration influence crestal bone loss or peri-implant disease? This was the central question of a single-center observational study that followed patien...
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