Purpose. To present the outcomes of immediately loaded single implants placed in the anterior maxilla. Methods. Over a 2-year\nperiod, all patients referred to a private clinic were considered for enrolment in this study. Inclusion criteria were single-tooth\nplacement in postextraction sockets or healed sites of the anterior maxilla. All implants were immediately loaded and followed for a\nperiod of 1 year after the placement of definitive crowns.Theoutcome measures were implant stability, survival, and success. Results.\n34 patients were selected and 43 tapered implants with a knife-edge thread design and a nanostructured, calcium-incorporated\nsurface (Anyridge, Megagen, Gyeongsang, Korea) were installed. Two implants were not sufficiently stable at placement (ISQ <\n60) and were considered failed for immediate loading; 41 implants had an ISQ � 60 at placement and were immediately loaded.\nOne year after the placement of definitive crowns, no implant failures were reported, for a survival rate of 100%. No biological\ncomplications were found, but 2 implants had their prosthetic abutments loosened: the implant success rate was 95.2%. Conclusions.\nIn the present study on the immediate loading of single implants in the anterior maxilla, positive outcomes were reported, with\nhigh survival (100%) and success (95.2%) rates (the present study has been registered in the ISRCTN registry, a publicly available trial\nregister recognized by WHO and ICMJE, with number ISRCTN12935478).
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