Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Any patient aged 18 years or more, who has at least one implant affected by severe peri-implantitis, and able to sign an informed consent form will be potentially eligible for this trial. Severe peri-implantitis will be defined as the presence of a peri-implant probing pocket depth [PPD] ≥ 6 mm in at least 1 site of the implant, bleeding and/or suppuration on deep probing [dBoP and/or dSoP, respectively] and radiographically documented marginal bone loss > 3 mm (Carcuac et al. 2016; Romandini et al. 2022) on implants in function by at least 12-months. In the absence of baseline radiographs, implants had to present a bone level >3 mm (Romandini et al. 2021b).
Patients fulfilling the above-mentioned inclusion criteria will not be included in the study if they appear to be unable to attend the study-related procedures (including the long-term follow-up visits) or if one or more of the following systemic or local exclusion criteria are detected during the enrolment phase.
Systemic primary exclusion criteria:
- systemic diseases (e.g. uncontrolled diabetes mellitus) or chronic use of medications (e.g. corticosteroids, bisphosphonates) likely to influence the outcome of therapy or which contraindicates the study procedures;
- smoking >10 cigarettes;
- pregnant or nursing women.
Local primary exclusion criteria:
- history of peri-implantitis treatment on the eligible implants in the previous 6 months;
- hopeless implants (>80% of bone loss/level).
A secondary inclusion criterion will be applied 1-month after surgery:
- absence of peri-implant abscess on the implants to be included.
