Educational Resources

• Establishing a dental implant patient portal should become the standard of care for all implant patients, past and present.
• As the quantity of implant brands continues to grow, dental professionals must take proactive steps to ensure continuity of care for implant patients.
• With an increase of mobility of dentists and patients, implant details need to always be readily available or recognizable to new providers for accurate and immediate care.

• High long-term complication rates: only 29.3% of prostheses were complication-free at 5 years and just 8.6% at 10 years.
• Implant-related complications increase significantly over time, with bone loss (>2 mm) reaching 40.3% and screw fractures up to 20.8% at 10 years.
• Prosthesis complications are highly prevalent, with veneering fractures reaching 66.6% and soft tissue complications 26.0% at 10 years.

doi: 10.4103/ejd.ejd_340_16. PMID: 28435381; PMCID: PMC5379828.

• Mechanical complications include screw loosening, screw fracture, implant framework fracture
• 5-year follow-up results were 10% screw loosening in single tooth molar area

doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1302_20. PMID: 34395651; PMCID: PMC8318161.

• The results of the present study can be used to provide a suitable ground for the establishment of a dental implant quality registry.
• The lack of dental implant quality registries and databases makes clinical research, evaluation of treatment outcomes, and quality control of care a challenge.

doi: 10.5125/jkaoms.2020.46.2.133. PMID: 32364353; PMCID: PMC7222622.

• 1,928 implants were placed in 837 patients, follow-up after loading mean period, 31.5 months. Screw loosening occurred in 7.2% of implants.
• Most cases occurred in less than six months after loading. Among those, 22.3% experienced recurrent screw loosening. Screw loosening was most common in implant prostheses with single crowns (14.0%).

doi: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2021.06.053. Epub 2021 Sep 1. PMID: 34481672.

• Mechanical complications occurred in 248 (57.9%) patients, 430 (47.9%) implants.
• Screw loosening (46.4% of implants, 56.8% of patients).
• Screw fracture (2.6% of implants, 4.4% of patients).
• Abutment fracture (11.4% of implants, 21.3% of patients).
• Implant fracture (3.5% of implants, 5.4% of patients).

J of Prosthodontics 18 (2009) 366–368.

• An implant record form is described to maintain accurate records for future use and implant maintenance visits.

doi: 10.4103/0974-2948.71050. PMID: 21189983; PMCID: PMC3009547.

• Dental records consist of documents related to the history of present illness, clinical examination, diagnosis, and treatment.
• They are essential for good quality patient care, legal obligations, and forensic purposes.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s42269-020-00471-0

• The current status and mechanisms for identifying dental implants, with emphasis on future direction and updated technology, and covers the existing factors influencing the identification of implant systems.
• "Factors like increasing number of implant manufacturers, dental tourism and cost, make it difficult to detect and match dental implants by dentists during the chairside time."
• "Artificial Intelligence seems to have shown potential to help in this case."
• "Keeping a tab on all implants is very difficult and development needs to be made to design a more efficient, exhaustive, and accurate system."

doi: 10.2186/jpr.JPR_D_20_00066. Epub 2021 Dec 6. PMID: 34866067.

• Original Equipment of Manufacturer abutment components presented the highest percentage of surface with tight contact with the implant in the three implant-abutment interfaces studied.
• Original Equipment of Manufacturer configuration showed highest fatigue limit value and fatigue strength exponent.
• Original abutment components provide better fit and mechanical results under cyclic loading than non-original configurations.