Effectivity of homecare and professional biofilm removal procedures on initial supragingival biofilm on laser-microtextured implant surfaces in an ex vivo model

International Journal of Implant Dentistry

Table 2 Overview on mean clean implant surface ± standard deviations as well as medians after decontamination procedures (after 48 h biofilm formation) regarding the groups

Implant surfaces	spCPTi	sehCPTi	CPTi Promote	LL CPTi	LL TAV
Air abrasive device
Mean in %	99.91	99.78	99.71	99.94	99.82
± SD	0.1	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.1
Median in %	99.92	99.93	99.76	99.95	99.84
Toothbrush
Mean in %	98.84	50.34	33.89	67.19	69.80
± SD	2.0	7.5	8.7	7.7	7.6
Median in %	99.42	50.22	35.82	67.55	70.17

spCPTi smooth pickled titanium, sehCPTi hydrophilic smooth and acid etched titanium, CPTi Promote titanium Promote, LL CPTi Laser-Lok titanium, LL TAV Laser-Lok titanium aluminium vanadium