For inhibition of crestal bone resorption due to stress shielding and disuse atrophy, an hydroxyapatite (HA) plasma coating was added to the coronal portion of partially porous-coated endosseous dental implants. These implants, as well as control non-HA-coated implants were placed in healed mandibular premolar extraction sites in dogs for a 72-week period of function. Histological examination showed that both implant designs became securely fixed by bone ingrowth into the porous-coated apical region of the implants. The plasma-sprayed HA coating resulted in significantly greater bone height formation and maintenance next to the coronal portion of the implant compared with non-HA-coated implants of similar design. In addition, significant resorption of the 20-to-50-μm-thick plasma-sprayed HA coating occurred over the 18-month period of function.
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