Abstract
A system designed to accurately measure the surface temperature of oral mucous membranes has been developed by bio-medical engineering techniques.
For the inflammation period right after implant placement, the surface temperature of oral mucous membranes, where implants were placed, was successively measured. As inflammation declined, the surface temperature of the affected side became closer to that of the opposite side. In a case of five implants simultaneously placed in a maxillary anterior tooth through a molar, the surface temperature of mucous membranes was the highest on the day following the surgery. Temperature transitions were different from part to part. It took six days after surgery for a molar, and twelve days for a canine, for the surface temperature of mucous membrane to return to the normal value. The body temperature, as well as respiratory and circulatory parameters, fluctuated within an allowable physiological range. It follows, from this, that the inflammatory response to surgical stress can objectively be assessed through local fever by measuring the temperature of the affected part, and that some suggestions will be obtained for post-surgerical management of implant placement.
