Endosseous implants have notably high success rates, yet a small percentage of implants still fail for unidentified reasons. Recent literature points to hyperglycemia, resulting from untreated or undiagnosed diabetes, as a possible contraindication in an otherwise apparently healthy population. To investigate the effect of surface design on peri-implant healing in the presence of hyperglycemia, STZ-treated rats were implanted with custom rectangular implants of two surface topographies: grit blasted (GB) and grit-blast with a calcium phosphate nanotopography (GB-DCD). Tensile testing was conducted at 5, 7, and 9 days post-operative. Results demonstrated hyperglycemia to delay early stages of the peri-implant healing. Contact osteogenesis was increased along the GB-DCD surface, even in an environment of uncontrolled hyperglycemia, and the GB-DCD surface outperformed the GB surface in both healthy and hyperglycemic animals, showing peri-implant bone matured more rapidly on nanotopographically complex surfaces, even in the presence of uncontrolled hyperglycemia.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/35585 |
| Date | 11 July 2013 |
| Creators | Bell, Spencer |
| Contributors | Davies, John Edward |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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