Table 4.

Marginal bone loss (MBL) assessment.

Author/Year	Patients (n)	Implants (n)	Morse Taper
			3 m	6 m	12 m	21 m	36 m
Pozzi et al., 2014 [26]	34	88	−0.37 ± 0.23	NR	−0.51 ± 0.34	NR	NR
Doornewaard et al., 2021 [27]	27	98	NR	I-MT −0.45 ± 0.61 t0–t1	I-MT −0.01 ± 0.47, t1–t2	NR	I-MT −0.01 ± 0.47, t1–t2
				I-NMT −0.33 ± 0.61 t0–t1	I-NMT −0.07 ± 0.60, t1–t2		I-NMT −0.07 ± 0.60, t1–t2
Pessoa et al., 2017 [28]	12	48	NR	NR	−0.17 ± 0.54	NR	NR
Glibert et al., 2018 [29]	21	83	I-MT −0.27 ± 0.65	I-MT −0.34 ± 0.47	I-MT −0.22 ± 0.32	I-MT −0.26 ± 0.32	NR
			I-NMT −0.15 ± 0.29	I-NMT −0.26 ± 0.39	I-NMT −0.27 ± 0.42	I-NMT −0.24 ± 0.36
Cooper et al., 2016 [30]	36	86	NR	NR	−0.48 ± 0.55	NR	−0.25 ± 0.60
Penarrocha-Diago et al., 2013 [31]	15	141	NR	−0.07 ± 0.13 mm	−0.12 ± 0.17 mm	NR	NR
External Hexagon
3 m	6 m		12 m		21 m	36 m
−0.95 ± 0.56	NR		−1.10 ± 0.52		NR	NR
NR	E-MT −0.45 ± 0.77, t0–t1		E-MT −0.10 ± 0.58 t1–t2		NR	E-MT −0.10 ± 0.58, t1–t2
	E-NMT −0.34 ± 0.51, t0–t1		E-NMT −0.19 ± 0.48, t1–t2			E-NMT −0.19 ± 0.48, t1–t2
NR	NR		−1.17 ± 0.44		NR	NR
E-MT −0.24 ± 0.36	E-MT −0.32 ± 0.42		E-MT −0.32 ± 0.45		E-MT −0.22 ± 0.33	NR
E-NMT −0.16 ± 0.25	E-NMT −0.29 ± 0.36		E-NMT −0.29 ± 0.38		E-NMT −0.19 ± 0.23
NR	NR		−0.68 ± 1.2		NR	−0.5 ± 0.93
NR	−0.27 ± 0.43		−0.38 ± 0.51		NR	NR

I-MT—internal with microthreads, I-NMT—internal without microthreads, E-MT—external with microthreads, E-NMT—external without microthreads, NR—not reported.