Dental implants: how successful?

HealthFacts | January 1, 1995 | Copyright

Dental implants have caught on as an alternative to dentures over the last decade. How successful is this technology, which was introduced in the U.S. only 13 years ago? In 1988, when the National Institutes of Health held its second--and most recent-- consensus conference on dental implants, it pointed to serious information gaps about their long-term survival.

Since then, improvements have been made in the techniques and the materials used in dental implants. While this is all to the good, such advances tend to render obsolete the findings of early studies. People who ...

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