The Impact of Operator Access on Implant Surface Roughness Following Implantoplasty Procedures: A Laboratory Study

Key Points

• Investigate how different operator access models impact surface roughness during implantoplasty procedures.
• Compared implant surface roughness in phantom-head and table-top models
• Measured procedural time for each model
• Assessed material loss after treatment
• Phantom-head model showed significantly greater surface roughness compared to table-top model
• Procedural time was longer for the phantom-head set-up
• No significant material loss was observed in either model