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Monday 26 October 2026 · 3 new papers
Air polishing as an adjunct to or replacement for conventional instrumentation in non-surgical peri-implantitis treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Journal of Dentistry · 20 Oct 2026 · doi:10.1016/j.jdent.2026.107125
This review pooled ten comparative studies of non-surgical peri-implantitis treatment. Adding air polishing to conventional instrumentation did not change probing pocket depth at six months, and bleeding on probing did not differ either. Evidence on using air polishing instead of instrumentation was too imprecise to judge; certainty was low to very low.
Why this is for you: Pooled pocket-depth data on a common adjunct in non-surgical peri-implantitis therapy.
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Accuracy of transfer learning in predicting peri-implantitis onset from intraoral radiograph: a multi-center longitudinal retrospective study
Clinical Oral Investigations · 19 Oct 2026 · doi:10.1007/s00784-026-07181-3
Researchers in Michigan and London trained pre-trained neural networks on baseline radiographs of 195 implants in 108 patients to predict later peri-implantitis. The best feature-extraction models reached an AUC of 0.74 to 0.83, while fully fine-tuned models performed poorly. The data were retrospective and modest in size, so prospective validation is still needed.
Why this is for you: Risk prediction for peri-implantitis from routine radiographs taken after restoration.
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Association between oxidative stress biomarkers and periodontitis in saliva and gingival crevicular fluid: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Oral Diseases · 19 Oct 2026 · doi:10.1111/odi.70542
A meta-analysis of 85 observational studies compared oxidative stress markers in saliva and crevicular fluid between people with and without periodontitis. Periodontitis was linked to higher oxidant and DNA-damage markers and lower antioxidant capacity, most clearly in crevicular fluid. Some salivary links vanished after adjusting for publication bias, and heterogeneity was large.
Why this is for you: Saliva and GCF biomarkers as possible diagnostic aids for periodontitis.
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