TABLE 3.

Implant insertion level at surgery and bone level changes between succeeding evaluation periods

		N	DIB surgery (Mean ± SD)	N	BLC surgery–load (Mean ± SD)	N	BLC load–12 M (Mean ± SD)	N	BLC 12−60 M (Mean ± SD)
Mesial	Subcrestal	22	−0.94 ± 0.54	20	−0.82 ± 0.49a	19	0.00 ± 0.47	16	0.12 ± 0.26
	Epicrestal	20	0.02 ± 0.05	20	−0.40 ± 0.45	20	0.15 ± 0.46	13	0.12 ± 0.21
	Supracrestal	10	0.68 ± 0.26	10	−0.17 ± 0.32	7	0.40 ± 0.29	6	0.23 ± 0.35
					p < .01		p = .127		p = .665
Distal	Subcrestal	16	−0.79 ± 0.39	16	−0.58 ± 0.49	16	−0.06 ± 0.47	15	0.02 ± 0.18
	Epicrestal	22	0.01 ± 0.03	21	−0.45 ± 0.38	20	0.14 ± 0.46	12	0.08 ± 0.25
	Supracrestal	14	0.76 ± 0.37	13	−0.38 ± 0.48	10	0.32 ± 0.55	8	0.35 ± 0.59
					p = .467		p = .149		p = .091
Mean	Subcrestal	23	−0.68 ± 0.29	22	−0.70 ± 0.33a	22	0.06 ± 0.41	20	0.09 ± 0.16
	Epicrestal	15	0.01 ± 0.03	14	−0.34 ± 0.40	13	0.07 ± 0.49	6	0.05 ± 0.21
	Supracrestal	14	0.56 ± 0.25	14	−0.34 ± 0.44	11	0.29 ± 0.29	9	0.26 ± 0.42
					p = .005		p = .303		p = .188

Classification according to mesial and distal DIB measurements at surgery for the respective implant side or according to the averaged mesial and distal measurements of DIB for mean values per implant. p values for One‐way ANOVA. Post hoc analysis using Tukey correction. α = 0.05.

^a Statistically different from implants placed epicrestal and the implants placed supracrestal