The influence of simultaneous versus delayed placement on the stability of titanium implants in onlay bone grafts. A histologic and biomechanic study in the rabbit.

A rabbit model was used to study the healing and stability of titanium implants in free bone grafts, placed simultaneously or after 8 weeks of healing and followed for 24 weeks. The skull bone was used as donor site and the tibial metaphysis as recipient site. Stability measurements were performed by using resonance frequency analysis (RFA) at implant placement and after 4, 8, 16 and 24 weeks of healing. Statistically significant higher resonance frequencies were measured at all time points for the delayed approach implants. Removal torque tests after 24 weeks revealed no differences between the two procedures. Histologic ground sections were prepared on specimens taken after 8, 16 and 24 weeks of healing. More bone-implant contacts were observed in the bone graft for the implants inserted in a delayed fashion, while there was no statistically significant difference in the degree of total bone-implant contact between the two groups. It is concluded that delayed implant placement in autogenous onlay bone grafts results in a better integration and stability of the implants.

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