Dental Implants Concept

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• 2-implant–supported overdentures may improve the oral health–quality of life of patients unsatisfied with conventional dentures, but there is no evidence of this treatment resulting in better outcomes in all patients  Journal Articles
• 6-millimeter implants seem to have lower survival than 10-mm implants with or without bone augmentation after 5 years when single posterior missing teeth are replaced  Journal Articles
• Bone graft seems to improve 1-year outcomes of surgical treatment of peri-implantitis defects  Journal Articles
• Bone–titanium oxide interface in humans revealed by transmission electron microscopy and electron tomography  Journal Articles
• Chemical and biological integration of a mouldable bioactive ceramic material capable of forming apatite in vivo in teeth  Journal Articles
• Choosing dental implants: a response.  Journal Articles
• Complete fixed prostheses and implants that support them have high survival rates, but it cannot be inferred to what extent this is influenced by the number of implants  Journal Articles
• Complexity and extension of periodontal and implant surgery are associated with the extent of pain  Journal Articles
• Cylindrical and tapered implants may result in low marginal bone loss after 1 year, but there is insufficient evidence to judge how they compare  Journal Articles
• Dental implants have high survival rates in patients older than 65 years  Journal Articles
• Dental implants placed in block bone grafts seem to have acceptable long-term survival  Journal Articles
• Good clinical outcomes at 5 years for immediately loaded implants placed using computer-assisted surgery to support fixed complete dentures  Journal Articles
• Good survival of dental implants placed in irradiated bone tissue, despite increased risk of experiencing implant failure  Journal Articles
• High endodontic treatment survival rate after 5 years was observed in a South Korean population  Journal Articles
• High survival of implants and fixed complete dentures after 3 years, regardless of material used to fabricate the implant-supported fixed complete denture  Journal Articles
• Immediate loading probably lowers the survival rate of single mandibular implants supporting mandibular overdentures compared with delayed loading  Journal Articles
• Implant resonance and the mechanostat theory: Applications of therapeutic ultrasound for porous metallic scaffolds  Journal Articles
• Implant stability slightly improved and was no different when placing 2 versus 4 implants to support mandibular overdentures  Journal Articles
• Implant survival may be high in patients with Sjögren syndrome  Journal Articles
• Implants placed in patients with a history of aggressive periodontitis had high survival rates and low marginal bone loss  Journal Articles
• Important limitations in methods make systematic review assessing impact of crown-to-implant ratio on treatment complications not useful  Journal Articles
• Insufficient evidence about benefits of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy as an adjunct to mechanic curettage in smokers with peri-implant mucositis  Journal Articles
• Insufficient evidence to support the use of locally delivered bisphosphonates to improve dental implant outcomes  Journal Articles
• Large uncertainty regarding how splinted and unsplinted maxillary implant–retained overdentures compare owing to limitations in systematic review addressing this question  Journal Articles
• Low rate of early implant failure is confirmed, but smoking and antidepressants are shown to be risk factors  Journal Articles
• Low-level laser therapy seems to reduce pain, swelling, and analgesic consumption after implant placement surgery  Journal Articles
• Methodological and reporting issues in a systematic review do not allow for drawing conclusions about bone loss when comparing complete dentures with overdentures  Journal Articles
• Mini implants seem to have good prognosis when used to support complete overdentures  Journal Articles
• Minimally invasive flapless approach results in less pain and better healing after implant placement compared with conventional surgery  Journal Articles
• Nanoscale implant anchorage aided by cement line deposition into titanium dioxide nanotubes  Journal Articles
• No differences were observed when comparing survival and marginal bone level of short versus long implants after 3 years  Journal Articles
• No evidence of benefits from using enamel matrix derivative as an adjuvant treatment in patients with peri-implant mucositis  Journal Articles
• No evidence of higher rates of implant failure in people with controlled diabetes  Journal Articles
• No evidence that education influences willingness to receive dental implants in older adults  Journal Articles
• Patients who are obese probably have worse peri-implant outcomes than those who are not, but there is not sufficient evidence that the implant survival is different  Journal Articles
• Patients with a history of chronic periodontitis and high compliance with supportive periodontal therapy do not have different implant survival than patients without periodontitis  Journal Articles
• Periodontal regeneration may have similar outcomes as tooth replacement and extraction after 10 years  Journal Articles
• Pink abutments improve the color of peri-implant mucosa compared with gray abutments, but there is no evidence that this improvement is important to patients  Journal Articles
• Probing depth and implant location are risk factors for bleeding on probing around dental implants  Journal Articles
• Resilient liner-retained overdentures seem to have a lower rate of mechanical complications than clip-retained overdentures in patients with 2 implant–supported bar-retained overdentures  Journal Articles
• Sandblasted implants may have a lower risk of implant failure but not different marginal bone loss than machined implants  Journal Articles
• Short implants supporting posterior single crowns probably do not have different survival rates than long implants after 1 year  Journal Articles
• Short implants without grafting placed in atrophic sinuses seem to have similar bone level outcomes as implants with grafting  Journal Articles
• Similar deviation between planned and placed implants when using static and dynamic computer-assisted systems in single-tooth implants  Journal Articles
• Similar survival of immediately placed and conventionally placed implants when placed together in edentulous patients  Journal Articles
• Similar survival, stability, bone loss, and satisfaction when comparing short implants with sinus floor elevation plus long implants  Journal Articles
• Single anterior maxillary dental implants have good esthetic and patient satisfaction outcomes 3 years after placement  Journal Articles
• Single implant–supported 2-unit cantilever fixed dental prosthesis seem to result in high patient satisfaction and survival up to 3 years  Journal Articles
• Small randomized clinical trial shows lack of difference in outcomes when comparing surgically guided and conventional protocol implant placement  Journal Articles
• Small study suggests that outcomes of free gingival grafts around implants with lack of keratinized mucosa remain stable from 18 through 48 months  Journal Articles
• Small trial suggests similar histologic and dimensional outcomes when using bovine or porcine xenografts to preserve the alveolar ridge in patients undergoing single-tooth extraction and implant placement  Journal Articles
• Small trial suggests that patients receiving a single implant-supported crown in the anterior maxilla who receive provisional crowns have better soft-tissue esthetic outcomes than do those who do not  Journal Articles
• Survival and failure of implant-supported prostheses in partially edentulous patients seems to be highly variable depending on the specific retention system  Journal Articles
• Teeth adjacent to single posterior implants were more likely to need retreatment of a restoration that those adjacent to natural teeth, but there were no differences in other coronal and endodontic outcomes or survival  Journal Articles
• The Impact of Contact Angle on the Biocompatibility of Biomaterials  Journal Articles
• There may be no differences in failure between immediately placed implants with or without grafts  Journal Articles
• There may be no differences in survival, bone loss, and satisfaction between immediate functional and nonfunctional loading protocols after 3 years  Journal Articles
• There seem to be no differences in survival and marginal bone loss between immediate and early loading of single implants after 1 and 3 years  Journal Articles
• Through and Through Defects of the Lower Face  Journal Articles
• Titanium-zirconium narrow-diameter implants may have good outcomes, but there is insufficient evidence to support their overall performance success  Journal Articles
• Titanium-zirconium narrow-diameter implants may have high survival rates after 1 year  Journal Articles
• Uncertainty about the benefits of bone augmentation procedures in patients receiving immediate implants  Journal Articles
• Uncertainty about usefulness of low-level laser therapy for improving implant outcomes  Journal Articles
• Use of short implants or long implants with bone grafting may not result in different outcomes  Journal Articles
• Very low certainty in evidence suggesting no difference in outcomes after placing implants in fresh sockets with or without granulomatous tissue  Journal Articles
• Very low certainty in evidence suggesting that there are no differences in failure rate and marginal bone loss between tilted and straight implants supporting fixed dental prostheses  Journal Articles
• Very low certainty in the evidence suggesting lack of association between high anxiety and patient satisfaction with dental implant treatment outcomes  Journal Articles