Análise fotoelástica comparativa entre pilares protéticos sólidos e de parafuso passante para implantes com conexão cônica instalados em diferentes profundidades ósseas

Abstract

Low-intensity stresses contribute to bone remodeling, while high intensity stresses cause bone resorption, below implant-abutment junction in dental implants. The occlusal overload affects the physiology of bone tissue, disrupting the balance between new formation and resorption. As a result of the disharmony, gaps arise in the crestal bone, creating a favorable environment for the proliferation of pathogens and fiber accumulation. With the continued overloading and the permanence of microorganisms, the bone support is impaired, resulting in implant failure. In normal loading conditions the tapered connection implants enables a homogeneous distribution of stresses. The subcrestal positioning of the prosthetic platform determines the transfer of stresses to distant areas from the cortical bone. This study used photoelastic analysis to evaluate the stress distribution in experimental models in conical abutment connection implants placed in equicristal position, 1.5 mm and 3.0 mm subcrestal positions. Rehabilitations were proposed for single prosthetic ceramic crowns cemented in standard and regular Ankylos prosthetic abutments with transmucosal height of 1.5 mm, 3.0 mm and 4.5 mm. Implants were placed in the position corresponding to the first lower right molar. According to the chosen situations, sets of implant/abutments were evaluated separately, adjacent to replicas of the second lower right premolar and second lower right molar and just adjacent to replicas of the second right premolar. The load applied to the photoelastic models was 200 Ncm in all cases. In models with dental replicas, distributed occlusal loading was performed; on models with isolated implant, loading was precise in the central and distal fossa of prosthetic crowns. The results showed that the indication of an abutment over another is depended on the presence or absence of a dental element posterior to the prosthetic crown, and of the implant platform depth of the remaining bone crest. In distal extension with subcrestal implants, stress distribution provided by Regular Ankylos prosthetic abutments was better than that provided by the Standard Ankylos abutment. With the presence of the second molar distribution of stress was more efficient with the Standard Ankylos abutment, regardless of the depth of the implant platform. In photoelastic models with distal extension, the platform displacement to a subcrestal position determined lower stress to the bone. Having bilateral proximal contacts, the stress distribution was favored when the implant was placed in a 3.0 mm subcrestal position with Regular Ankylos prosthetic abutments. However, when connected to the Standard Ankylos abutment, implant placed in equicristal position showed better stress distribution than subcrestal implants.