Treatment of Mild to Moderate Peri-implantitis Using an Oscillating Chitosan Device

The implant pockets will be debrided with the BioClean™ biodegradable brush for 2 minutes and with the brush seated in an oscillating dental handpiece (NSK ESQ10 TEQ) and thereafter irrigated with sterile saline or commercially available and area-specific titanium curettes (Langer and Langer, Rønvig) for 2 minutes and thereafter irrigated with sterile saline. The treatment will be repeated every three months until the terminal examination after 24 months. Debridement is performed with local anaesthesia as needed. Healthy sites will not be retreated.

Peri-implant pockets will be debrided using titanium curettes.