Dentistry Online presents the latest abstracts published examining the factors contributing to dental implant fractures.
Analysis of the causes of dental implant fracture: A retrospective clinical study
Stoichkov B, Kirov D (2018) Quintessence Int 49(4): 279-86
Objective
Fracture of osseointegrated dental implants is the most severe mechanical complication. The aim of the present study was to analyse possible causative factors for implant body fracture.
Method and materials
One hundred and one patients with 218 fitted implants and a follow-up period of three to 10 years were studied.
Factors associated with biomechanical and physiologic overloading such as parafunctional activity (eg, bruxism), occlusion, and cantilevers, and factors related to the planning of the dental prosthesis, available bone volume, implant area, implant diameter, number of implants, and their inclination were tracked.
The impact of their effect was analysed using the Bonferroni-corrected post-hoc Mann-Whitney test for each group.
Results
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