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Article: Dental implants: how successful?
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- HealthFacts
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 Center for Medical Consumers, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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 ask their dentists about implant longevity are apt to hear success rates of 85 or 90%, depending ...