Research Article

Bone Augmentation of Peri-Implant Dehiscence Defects Using Multilaminated Small Intestinal Submucosa as a Barrier Membrane: An Experimental Study in Dogs

Table 3

Histometric analysis in the area of interest (mean ± standard deviation).

mSIS groupBG groupControl group

NBA (%)16.43 ± 4.96a19.66 ± 6.02a7.56 ± 2.91b
RBS (%)7.09 ± 2.03a8.68 ± 1.36a3.27 ± 0.58b
B-fBIC (mm)1.52 ± 0.48a, b1.65 ± 0.50a0.97 ± 0.67b
BIC (%)33.30 ± 5.56a39.19 ± 3.41a21.92 ± 4.14b

NBA, new bone area; RBS, remaining bone substitute; B-fBIC, distance from the first bone-implant contact to the bottom of the defect; BIC, bone-to-implant contact; different letters indicate significant differences between groups in the same condition ().