Review
DENTAL IMPLANT PLACEMENT IN HYPERDENSE BONE AREA OF THE JAW: A NARRATIVE MINIREVIEW
1 Department of Innovative Technologies in Medicine and Dentistry, University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
2 Department of Innovative Technologies in Medicine and Dentistry, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
3 Department of Innovative Technologies in Medicine and Dentistry, University of Chieti–Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Correspondence to:
Department of Innovative Technologies in Medicine and Dentistry,
University of Chieti-Pescara,
Chieti, Italy
e-mail: calogerobugea@yahoo.it
Annals of Stomatology 2022 May-August; 2(2): 79-83
https://doi.org/10.69129/stomatol/2022v2iss2_7
Received: 10 May 2022 Accepted: 2 June 2022
Copyright © by LAB srl 2022 ISSN 2975-1276
Abstract
Dental implant placement has become one of the safest surgical procedures in oral surgery; when the jawbone is enough in height and width, dental implant placement is easy, and implant primary stability is predictable. However, one of the most important elements of success in dental implants is primarily bone density. Bone tissue quality can vary depending on patient health, previous tooth extraction, or odontogenic or non-odontogenic lesions in the jaws, which should be removed before dental implant placement into edentulous areas. Among lesions of the jaw bones, the radiopaque ones are less frequent and less studied. This mini literature review aims to evaluate the reliability of dental implant placement in the hyperdense bone area of the jaws, avoiding, when possible, lesion removal. Material and methods: the research was performed manually on PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus databases by typing the exact search string; among 114 scientific articles, only 8 matched the eligibility criteria. These studies show how radiopaque lesions should always be investigated to understand their origins: radiological investigation and eventual clinical symptoms reported by the patient should be considered for differential diagnosis; anyway, according to these reported cases, implant placement can be successfully performed also when these types of lesions are present, even if further research is needed to develop new and specific surgical protocols.
Keywords: cemento-osseous-dysplasia, condensing osteitis, dental implants, hyperdense lesions, idiopathic osteosclerosis, jawbone