About this Book

The use of dental implants has revolutionized the treatment of partially and fully edentulous patients today. Implants have become a treatment approach for managing a broad range of clinical dilemmas due to their high level of predictability and success. However, certain risk factors might predispose individuals to lower success rates and to a greater hazard for implant failure with an increasing number of implants being placed, peri-implantitis is becoming a prevalent and notable disease, affecting 2.7% to 47.1% of implants.