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Abstract
Compromised teeth with periapical pathologies are removed before dental implant placement and sockets are left to heal. Some clinicians began to immediately place dental implants in fresh extraction sockets associated with chronic inflammatory periapical granuloma but further studies were needed for different periapical pathologies, follow up period and assessment of soft tissue healing.
Objectives: To evaluate healing of dental implants placed in sockets with chronic inflammatory periapical lesions after socket debridement.
Materials and methods: 10 patients received 10 implants that were immediately placed in sockets associated with chronic periapical granuloma. Clinical and radiographic parameters were evaluated.
Results: At the end of the follow up period of 6 months, all implants were osseointegrated with good implant stability and with no signs of clinical mobility or infection and also all periapical lesions healed with no radiographic signs of peri-implantitis or lesion recurrence.
Conclusions: Implants could osseointegrate successfully whenever they are placed immediately after extraction of teeth with periapical lesions, provided that proper clinical measures, such as careful cleaning and socket curettage/debridement, are undertaken prior to the implant surgical placement.
Keywords: Immediate Implant, Periapical Lesion, Fresh Tooth Socket.