Trial reportClinical oral implants research2026
Marginal Bone Loss Around Bone-Level Fully Guided Implants With Direct Implant Connection Versus Intermediate Abutment: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Trial report in Clinical oral implants research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06017115 (Evaluation of Straumann Bone Level Tapered® Implants Using Screwed Abutment Height in Partially Edentulous Patients), which is not on this map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Evaluation of Straumann Bone Level Tapered® Implants Using Screwed Abutment Height in Partially Edentulous Patients: a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveTo determine the influence of an intermediate prosthetic abutment on peri-implant marginal bone loss (MBL) around two implant-supported fixed restorations in the posterior area. MATERIAL AND
methodsThis study included patients with partial edentulism requiring two implants in the posterior maxilla or mandible. All implants were bone-level tapered implants, placed through a fully guided approach and finalized with a CAD/CAM temporary and final full zirconia restoration. The total sample comprised 30 patients (60 implants), divided into a Control group (direct to implant connection, non-intermediate abutment; 12 patients, 24 implants) and a Test group (intermediate abutment; 18 patients, 36 implants). The Test group was further divided into two abutment height subgroups: 1 mm (7 patients) and 2.5 mm (11 patients). MBL was measured using periapical x-ray imaging on the day of surgery, at definitive crown delivery, and at 4, 6, 12, and 24 months post-surgery.
resultsThe Test group (intermediate abutment) had lower MBL (0.83 ± 0.25 mm) than the Control group (1.17 ± 0.35 mm; p = 0.001). The secondary analysis of the abutment height subgroups did not differ significantly in MBL, although values showed a trend towards a more favorable for the highest intermediate abutment.
conclusionsThis randomized clinical trial demonstrated that direct implant connection prosthesis induced greater MBL around implants in splinted crowns for an implant-supported fixed restoration when compared with the use of an intermediate abutment.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT06017115.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.