Historically, there has been broad consensus that osseointegration represents a
homeostasis between a titanium dental implant and the surrounding bone, and that the …

Background The discrepancy between some scientific views and the daily clinical
experience with dental implants has made the topic of “periimplantitis” highly controversial …

As implant treatment has been integrated in contemporary dental practice, complications
with the forms of peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis have also increased in …

Periimplantitis is a plaqueassociated pathologic condition occurring in tissues around
dental implants, characterized by inflammation in the periimplant mucosa and subsequent …

There are two ways of looking at secondary failures of osseointegration; one is to reflect on
possible causes for the failure, the other focuses on the pathology per se. In the first case …

Peri-implant diseases affecting the surrounding structures of endosseous dental implants
include peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis. The prevalence of peri-implantitis ranges …

Successful osseointegration is the result of a controlled foreign body reaction to dental
implants. Osseointegrated implants have demonstrated excellent longterm survivability …

The prevalence of implant biological complications has grown enormously over the last
decade, in concordance with the impact of biofilm and its byproducts upon disease …

At the turn of the millennium, marketing estimates indicated that over 2 million dental
implants are installed annually, and this number is expected to rise further over the next few …

Surgical treatment of peri-implantitis lesions can be performed in cases with considerable
pocket formation (larger than 5 mm) and bone loss after the acute infection has been …