THE INFLUENCE OF TYPE OF INCISION ON THE SUCCESS RATE OF IMPLANT INTEGRATION AT STAGE-II UNCOVERING SURGERY

In 1991,the Dental Implant Clinical Research Group comprising 30 Depar tment of Veterans Affairs medical centers and two dental schools initi ated a long-term clinical study to investigate the clinical performanc e of implants within the Spectra-System (Core-Vent Corporation, Las Ve gas, NV), This article focuses on a portion of the study database rela ted to incision type, implant success rates, and response of crestal b one up to the time of surgical uncovering, The crestal incision was us ed for 1,705 implants (381 patients) and the remote incision for 593 i mplants (141 patients), No statistically significant difference (P = . 092 chi-square statistic) was found in implant integration or the resp onse of crestal bone.