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Evidence suggests immediate loaded single implant crowns have higher failure risk

Derek Richards

This review originally published in 2009 has now had a critical summary of it prepared under the auspices of the American Dental Association Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry

The  appraiser considered that this was a good systematic review that had used accepted methods and applied rigourous selection criteria.  There was homogeneity among  the 5 studies included  but they all has small sample sizes and were of short duration.

The  limited available evidence indicates  that  immediately loaded single implants (with crowns) are at higher risk of failure.

 Go to the ADA critical Summary

Go to the Pubmed abstract of the original review

 

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Derek Richards is a specialist in dental public health, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry and Specialist Advisor to the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) Development Team. A former editor of the Evidence-Based Dentistry Journal and chief blogger for the Dental Elf website until December 2023. Derek has been involved with a wide range of evidence-based initiatives both nationally and internationally since 1994. Derek retired from the NHS in 2019 remaining as a part-time senior lecturer at Dundee Dental School until the end of 2023.

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