Immediate Loading of Four Single Piece Compressive Implants for Bar Retained Mandibular Overdenture

Six patients of age ranging from 40 to 60years (mean 50 years) were selected for this study from the out patients clinic, Prosthodontics department, Faculty of Dentistry, Mansoura University.

I) Preparation of the patient for implant placement:

• A cone beam C.T was done for each patient to determine the bone height and the adequate sites for the placement of four interforaminal implants.
• Mandibular denture was constructed to aid in designing of surgical stent to guide in implant placement.

II) Surgical phase :

• Surgical stent was used to guide in implant placement. All implants were placed according to the flapless protocol under local anesthesia.
• All patients received four dental implants located anterior to the mental foramen in canine and premolar position.

III) Prosthetic phase:

• The necks of the placed implants were bent up to 15 degree to ensure parallelism.
• Intraoral final impression was done by intraoral scanner to be used for digital designing of the milled bar and the final prosthesis.
• bar design was milled in PMMA resin material and tried over implants, then resin bar try-in was invested and casted in co-cr alloy.
• Final bar was inserted intra-orally after finishing and polishing
• The four implant bar assembly was then loaded by the prefabricated acrylic denture according to Browaeys H et al , 2014. Access holes were made above the abutment to be finally relined in the patient mouth at the correct vertical dimension of occlusion to allow for immediate loading protocol.
• The occlusion was adjusted and the patients were instructed to go on soft diet for the first 48 hours until final impressions and delivery of milled bar overdenture were done.

IV) Evaluation:

Probing depth was measured for each implant using plastic probe and radiographic evaluation of the peri-implant marginal bone loss by using cone beam CT started for the patients from the delivery of final prosthesis (T0) and continue for 6 months (T6) and 12 month (T12) from insertion.

Inclusion criteria

• They were healthy, free from any systemic diseases relating to the bone resorption such as uncontrolled diabetics or osteoprosis .This was achieved through medical history and clinical examination by physician.
• They have completely edentulous maxilla opposed by completely edentulous mandible
• All patients have sufficient inter-arch space for overdenture and milled bar construction not less than 12mm
• All patients are of Angel's class I maxillo-mandibular relationship.
• All patients must have mandibular bone height interforaminally not less than 8-10 mm as verified by cone beam C.T.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with systemic issues such as recent myocardial infarction, hepatic patients, bleeding disorders, autoimmune diseases, hyperparathyroidism
• Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
• Severe osteoporosis
• Cancer
• Recent organ transplants, long-term corticosteroid use
• Radiotherapy
• Uncooperative patients with psychiatric disorders
• Heavy smokers
• Poor oral hygiene
• Parafunctional habits