Abstract

VILLA-CARMONA, John Jairo; SANDOVAL-ZUNIGA, Diego Felipe; JIMENEZ-MOORE, Santiago José  and  ARISMENDI-RAMIREZ, Andrés. SURVIVAL ANALYSIS OF DENTAL IMPLANTS TO DETERMINE THEIR SUCCESS OR FAILURE, DEVELOPED IN DENTAL OFFICES OF THE CITY OF PEREIRA, COLOMBIA. Investig. andina [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.37, pp.101-113.  Epub Aug 30, 2018. ISSN 0124-8146.

Dental implants have represented a great advance in modern dentistry. The efforts made in scientific research and industrial development have allowed to achieve excellent results regarding reliability of the techniques. The amount of patients consulting the dentist due to the loss of teeth, have shown that the main causes are, age, oropharyngeal diseases that can produce bone loss, poor oral hygiene, bone deficiencies, trauma, systemic diseases, among others. As a result, dental professionals permanently seek to improve and diversify the technological implant processes, optimizing the type of material and tools used in these processes, with the purpose of achieving the best results of fixation and adaptation for patients; which allows them to access to the latest technology, and have the best results. The purpose of this research is to determine the amount of success and failure of dental implants in patients of dental offices in the city of Pereira, Colombia. A descriptive study was carried out, the characterization of the technique, type of implants; support the research by applying to the dentists an instrument of data collection. It was determined that the percentage of successful implants corresponds to 97.1%. Evidencing that most of the implants are long type 94.58% respectively, it was not stablished that there is a direct relationship between the failure of the implant and the type of dentist office.

Keywords : Osseointegration; Dental implants; implantology; dental implants characterization.

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