Ricerc@Sapienza

Peri-implant disease may affect survival of dental implants. The aim of the study is to analyze the effectiveness of diode laser as a supportive modality to the non-surgical conventional treatment of peri-implant mucositis (PiM) and initial peri-implantitis (PI).
Twenty-three patients with single implants suffering from PiM or initial PI were selected and randomly divided into two groups;
control group (CG) received non-surgical conventional treatment, and test group (TG) received non-surgical conventional

Introduction: Prosthetic implant rehabilitations for partial or complete edentulous patients are increasing, sometimes followed by failure due to peri-implantitis, irreversible disease characterized by tissue inflammation, bleeding, probing pocket depth ≥4 mm, bone loss, with/out purulent exudate. Therefore, there are many clinical studies about treatment possibilities. Decontamination of peri-implantitis pockets is one of diode laser applications in dentistry.