Surgical Management of Retrograde Periimplantitis With the Adjunctive Use of Photobiomodulation: A Case Report

Abstract

Dental implants have become one of the most popular treatment options for the replacement of a missing tooth due to their high aesthetics and close resemblance to a natural tooth. Although dental implants have a high success rate, they can be complicated by infections. Retrograde peri-implantitis is a clinically symptomatic periapical lesion that is diagnosed as a radiolucency that develops shortly after implant insertion, in which the coronal portion of the implant achieves a normal bone-implant interface. Many treatment options have been proposed over the year as a treatment modality including conservative approaches such as systemic antibiotics to surgical approach such as implant resection. This is one such case report where we try to surgically treat a case of peri-implantitis with the adjunctive use of a Diode Laser.