SUCCESS RATE OF DENTAL IMPLANTS PLACED WITH PIEZOELECTRIC RIDGE SPLITTING - A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:Dental implants are being widely used in the last few years. Success is high, in the presence of overall good ridge width, but it's difficult in narrow alveolar ridge.Thus, different methods have been employed like bone ridge splitting/expansion. Conventional methods are carried out with chisels, disks or rotary instruments. Piezosurgery has made it far more easier,safer and has reduced the complications. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate success of dental implants placed with piezoelectric ridge splitting. DATA SOURCES:Data was searched through the database, PubMed and Ebscohost published between1st January 2003 till 31st October 2019. Search strategy was developed using keywords related to dental implants placed after piezoelectric ridge splitting. RESULTS:427 articles were identified through electronic database. After duplicate removal,and full text reading,11 articles qualified for qualitative synthesis in this review. LIMITATIONS 1. As all the databases were not accessible, inclusion of the studies is small. 2. Unpublished data was not included in this review. Not all studies provided baseline and end scores hence they were excluded from the calculation of statistical and clinical significance. CONCLUSION:According to this review study, dental implants placed in a ridge split using piezoelectricity have a high success rate of above96.2% and thus can be successfully employed. KEYWORDS :dental implant, piezoelectric, bone splitting, split crest, ridge split, ultrasonic.