María José Moya-Villaescusa, Arturo Sánchez-Pérez, Nerea Lara-Hernández, Alfonso Jornet-García, José María Montoya-Carralero
Applied Sciences, 2024, 14(23), 10840OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between early wound healing and implant success.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
Fifty single implants (25 in women and 25 in men) were placed in patients meeting the inclusion criteria. The implants (Ticare) were placed via the two-stage technique. Patients were assessed at 24 h, one week, one month, and two months post-implantation. At the final evaluation, implantation failure or success was recorded. Postoperative pain in these patients at one week after placement was assessed with a visual analogue scale (VAS), and the Wachtel soft tissue early healing index was used to measure healing.
RESULTS
Two months after implant placement, the success rate was 92%. No statistically significant relationship was found between the Wachtel index and short-term implant success or failure. Additionally, there was no relationship between implant success or failure and variables such as smoking, diabetes status, age, sex, or guided bone regeneration (GBR).
CONCLUSIONS
Neither the Wachtel index nor any of the other variables studied is a predictor of early implantation success
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