Is transmucosal healing of an implant as effective as submerged healing when simultaneous guided bone regeneration is performed? A preclinical study

Park, Jin-Young; Kwon, Yoon-Hee; Song, Young Woo; Cha, Jae-Kook; Jung, Ui-Won; Thoma, Daniel; Jung, Ronald

doi:10.1111/jcpe.13913

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Park, J.-Y., Kwon, Y.-H., Song, Y. W., Cha, J.-K., Jung, U.-W., Thoma, D., & Jung, R. (2024). Is transmucosal healing of an implant as effective as submerged healing when simultaneous guided bone regeneration is performed? A preclinical study. Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 51(3), 330–337. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpe.13913

Abstract

AIM To investigate whether transmucosal healing is as effective as submerged healing in terms of buccal bone regeneration when guided bone regeneration (GBR) is performed simultaneously with implant placement. MATERIALS AND METHODS In six dogs, buccal dehiscence defects were created in the edentulous mandibular ridge, sized 5 × 5 × 3 mm (length × height × depth). In each defect, a bone-level implant was placed, and four experimental groups were randomly assigned as follows: (i) transmucosal healing with GBR (T-GBR), (ii) transmucosal