Diederik Hentenaar

66 Chapter 3 Table 3b. Descriptive statistics of successful patients’ (air-polishing and ultrasonic group combined) clinical and radiographical outcomes Outcomes† N = 14 patients / 23 implants T0 (14/23) T3 (14/23) T6 (12/19) T9 (14/23) T12 (14/23) Peri-implant mean BoP (%) site level (SD) 49.3 (23.8) 31.9 (16.6) 28.1 (20.8) 18.1 (18.7) 23.9 (20.0) implant level (n) 95.7 (22) 95.7 (22) 73.7 (14) 60.9 (14) 73.9 (17) mean SoP (%) site level (SD) 6.5 (16.5) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) implant level (n) 17.4 (4) 0.0 (0) 0.0 (0) 0.0 (0) 0.0 (0) mean Plq (%) site level (SD) 17.4 (19.8) 15.9 (20.4) 12.3 (15.6) 12.3 (12.5) 12.2 (15.3) implant level (n) 52.2 (12) 52.2 (12) 52.6 (10) 56.5 (13) 47.8 (11) PPD (mm) mean (SD) 4.0 (0.9) 3.2 (0.6) 3.1 (0.5) 3.0 (0.7) 2.9 (0.6) Marginal bone loss (mm)‡ mean (SD) 3.0 (0.8) 2.9 (0.9) NA NA 3.0 (1.1) Periodontal N = 10 patients (partial edentulous) T0 T3 T6 T9 T12 Full mouth mean BoP (%) patient level (SD) 14.6 (8.9) 9.9 (7.9) NA NA 9.4 (4.0) Full mouth mean SoP (%) patient level (SD) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) NA NA 0.0 (0.0) Full mouth mean Plq (%) patient level (SD) 33.5 (21.5) 31.3 (19.6) NA NA 21.9 (14.9) Full mouth mean PPD (mm) patient level (SD) 2.0 (0.25) 2.0 (0.29) NA NA 2.0 (0.23) †measured on a 6 point scale ‡measured at the mesial and distal site