The use of dental implants is expanding rapidly. Treatment planning for their placement involves the assessment of patient-related risk factors prior to formulation of a treatment plan. The aim of this review was to assess relevant literature and provide evidence-based information on the successful surgical placement of dental implants The authors conducted a search of [read the full story…]
Short dental implants have been proposed as an alternative to other methods of bone augmentation for the prosthetic treatment of atrophic alveolar ridges. The aim of this review was to systematically evaluate clinical studies of implants < 10 mm in length, to determine short implant-supported prosthesis success in the atrophic jaw. Searches were conducted in [read the full story…]
The aim of this review was to assess whether patients undergoing dental implants who receive peri-operative antibiotics have lower failure rather than those not who do not receive antibiotics. The authors searched medline for studies in English with test and control groups . Antibiotic use was classified as a single preoperative dose, a single preoperative [read the full story…]
The aim of this study was to see whether the provision of simple mandibular implant overdentures (IODs) to elderly individuals would give them a significantly better nutritional profile than those who receive complete dentures (CDs). The authors randomised two hundred fifty-five edentate patients over 65 yrs were to receive maxillary CDs and mandibular IODs (n [read the full story…]
This systematic review publication based on a Cochrane review was first published in 2010 . The American Dental Association Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry has now published a critical summary of this review. The review was of high quality, only considering randomised controlled trials comparing immediate (I), immediate-delayed (ID) or delayed (D) implant placement. However most [read the full story…]
This review looked at whether there is any difference in failure rates between short implants (minimum length 7mm) and longer implants (≥10 mm). A recent review by Telleman et al also reviewed the prognosis of short <10mm implants. For this particular review the authors searched Medline, Embase, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) [read the full story…]
The purpose of this review was to examine difference between splinted and unsplinted implants for implant-supported overdentures regarding (i) survival rates, (ii) prosthetic ⁄ technical complications, (iii) peri-implant parameters ⁄ biological complications and (iv) patient satisfaction. The authors searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) and MEDLINE (Pubmed) databases and hand searched a [read the full story…]
A new summary has just been added to the CRD Economic Evaluation Database (EED). The review contains a structured abstract of the methods and findings of a cost-effectiveness study of conventional approaches vs implants in root canal treatment. This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of available interventions to treat a maxillary incisor tooth with irreversible pulpitis [read the full story…]
Dental implants have been in general use for many years. This review sets out to consider the success rates for implants of <10mm in partially edentulous patients. Searches were conducted in the Medline and Embase databases with two reviewers independently assessing methodological quality using specific study design-related quality assessment forms. Randomized-controlled trials and prospective cohort [read the full story…]
