Sandblasted and Acid Etched Titanium Dental Implant Surfaces Systematic Review and Confocal Microscopy Evaluation

Abstract

The field of dental implantology has made progress in recent years, allowing safer and predictable oral rehabilitations. Surely the rehabilitation times have also been reduced, thanks to the advent of the new implant surfaces, which favour the osseointegration phases and allow the clinician to rehabilitate their patients earlier. To carry out this study, a search was conducted in the Pubmed, Embase and Elsevier databases; the articles initially obtained according to the keywords used numbered 283, and then subsequently reduced to 10 once the inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied. The review that has been carried out on this type of surface allows us to fully understand the features and above all to evaluate all the advantages or not related. The study materials also are supported by a manufacturing company, which provided all the indications regarding surface treatment and confocal microscopy scans. In conclusion, we can say that, thanks to these new surfaces, it has been possible to shorten the time necessary to obtain osseointegration and, therefore, secondary stability on the part of implants. The surfaces, therefore, guarantee an improved cellular adhesion and thanks to the excellent wettability all the biological processes that derive from it, such as increases in the exposed implant surface, resulting in an increase in bone-implant contact (BIC).

Endo and Exoskeleton: New Technologies on Composite Materials

“…All this was possible also thanks to the development and improvement of adhesive techniques, which allowed an ever increasing use of polymers in the dental field. Other materials already known, such as titanium, are able to be used in contact with tissues and to build prostheses [33,34], but composite materials, as already mentioned, are able to combine the mechanical characteristics of their components [35][36][37][38][39][40][41]; thus, obtaining hybrid materials with unique characteristics.…”

Surface Modified Techniques and Emerging Functional Coating of Dental Implants

“…The sandblasting and acid etching appears to be a safe method that produces reliable and predictable surfaces of titanium implant surface [39]. The SLA (Sandblasted/Large-grit/Acid-etched) treatment has been widely applied in modifying surfaces for dental titanium implants.…”

Prosthetic and Mechanical Parameters of the Facial Bone under the Load of Different Dental Implant Shapes: A Parametric Study

“…The position of the implant is determined by the position and angle of the adjacent teeth, by laboratory simulations, or by the use of computerized tomography with CAD / CAM simulations and surgical guides [9]. The objective of this study is to evaluate how the geometric and therefore biomechanical characteristics of a dental implant, in addition to having repercussions on the components of the implant, can influence the response of the patient's oral tissues [10][11][12][13].…”

“…The objective of this study is to evaluate how the geometric and therefore biomechanical characteristics of a dental implant, in addition to having repercussions on the components of the implant, can influence the response of the patient's oral tissues [10][11][12][13].…”