Volume 32, Issue 1 pp. 100-111
ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Clinical signs, symptoms, perceptions, and impact on quality of life in patients suffering from peri-implant diseases: a university-representative cross-sectional study

Mario Romandini

Corresponding Author

Mario Romandini

Section of Graduate Periodontology, Faculty of Odontology, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Correspondence

Mario Romandini, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Odontología, Plaza Ramón y Cajal, 3, 28040 Madrid, Spain.

Email: [email protected]

Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (lead), Funding acquisition (equal), ​Investigation (equal), Methodology (lead), Project administration (equal), Supervision (equal), Visualization (lead), Writing - original draft (lead)

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Cristina Lima

Cristina Lima

Section of Graduate Periodontology, Faculty of Odontology, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Contribution: Data curation (equal), ​Investigation (equal), Methodology (supporting), Writing - review & editing (equal)

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Ignacio Pedrinaci

Ignacio Pedrinaci

Section of Graduate Periodontology, Faculty of Odontology, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Contribution: ​Investigation (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)

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Ana Araoz

Ana Araoz

Section of Graduate Periodontology, Faculty of Odontology, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain

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Maria Costanza Soldini

Maria Costanza Soldini

Department of Periodontology, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Contribution: Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (equal), ​Investigation (equal), Visualization (supporting), Writing - review & editing (equal)

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Mariano Sanz

Mariano Sanz

Section of Graduate Periodontology, Faculty of Odontology, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain

ETEP (Etiology and Therapy of Periodontal and Peri-implant Diseases) Research Group, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain

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First published: 19 November 2020
Citations: 36

Abstract

Objectives

To study the symptoms and perception reported by patients with peri-implant diseases, as well as their signs and their potential impact on the oral health quality of life.

Material and Methods

Two hundred and forty randomly selected patients were invited to participate. As part of the history assessment, the patient OHIP-14Sp was evaluated together with, for each implant, the patient perception regarding the peri-implant health status and the history of pain, spontaneous discomfort, bleeding, suppuration, swelling, and discomfort during brushing. As part of the clinical examination, the following potential signs of peri-implant diseases were collected: probing pocket depth (PPD), mucosal dehiscence (MD), extent of BoP, presence of SoP, and visual signs of redness and swelling. Those parameters were analyzed in relation to the actual peri-implant health diagnosis.

Results

Ninety-nine patients with a total of 458 dental implants were studied. Even in case of peri-implantitis, 88.9% of the implants were perceived by the patients as healthy. The total OHIP-14Sp sum score did not differ in relation to the peri-implant health diagnosis. Increased reports of spontaneous discomfort, bleeding, swelling, and discomfort during brushing were observed in presence of disease. However, only a minor proportion of implants with peri-implant diseases presented symptoms. PPD ≥ 6 mm was more frequent in diseased than in healthy implants (p < .01), while PPD ≥ 8 in pre-peri-implantitis/peri-implantitis than in healthy/mucositis implants (p < .01). Implants with peri-implantitis showed higher MD than implants without peri-implantitis (p < .01).

Conclusion

Peri-implant diseases are in most cases asymptomatic and not perceived by the patients. Despite being unable to accurately discriminate between peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis, PPD and MD resulted as the only two clinical signs associated with pre-peri-implantitis/peri-implantitis.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare no conflicts of interest related to this study.

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