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Abstract The limitation of dental implants needing a healing period before placement of the final restoration for osseointegration has become an inconvenience for both patients and implant surgeons. Which has lead to the development of new surface treatments to fasten bone formation and reduce the time needed for osseointegration. Amongst these treatments was the SLA treatment and laser treatment. On the other hand there are many clinical situations that prevent surgeons from placing classical implant lengths and thus using shorter dental implants. This is considered setback to the surface area of dental implant and thus affects stability. The aim of this study was to test the stability of these short dental implants in two different surface treatments. The SLA and the Laser treated implants. Measuring their ISQ along time from the day of insertion, at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks. 8 patients have participated in this study each receiving 2 dental implants, one from the SLA treated group and one from the laser treated group. The ISQ data was measured and collected and statistical analysis of these data was done. It was observed that the SLA treated dental implants have had a stability dip from weeks 2 to week 4. This stability dip was statistically significant in relation to the stability at day 0. On the other hand the laser treated surface implants had a non statistically significant dip, which is more advantageous compared to SLA. It was also observed that there was a statistically significant difference in favor of laser treated dental implants in terms of stability at weeks 4, 6 and 8. During this period the laser treated surface have shown a higher implant stability. Before and after this period the difference of stability was non significant. |