Chart Review: Comparing the Position and Tilt of Dental Implants Versus Those of Natural Teeth

Launched by OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · Mar 11, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

This is a retrospective chart review. Specifically, the clinic e-chart system will be used to locate patients who received implant surgery. E-charts from January 1, 2016, to January 6, 2025, with pre- and post-implant surgery tomography (CBCT) documentation will be identified and used for this study.

Demographic and clinical data (age, sex, systemic conditions, implant details and surgical treatment outcomes) related to these cases will be collected. Radiographic measurements will include the following:

* On tomography: 1. Buccolingual axial inclination of natural molars and implants. 2. ...

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients with mandibular molar implant placement.
• • Presence of contralateral natural mandibular first, second molars or both.
• • Availability of pre-extraction CBCT scans of the corresponding or contralateral mandibular molar tooth or panoramic radiographs for mesiodistal angulation.
• • Availability of post-implant CBCT scans or panoramic radiographs for mesiodistal angulation
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Incomplete or low-quality CBCT scans.
• • History of mandibular trauma or pathologies altering tooth or implant alignment.
• • History of reconstructive mandibular surgery in the implant region.
• • History of periapical pathology

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