Smoking & Implant Failure: An Evidence Based Review
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 4
Abstract
The purpose of this review article is to collect the published data concerning factors affecting Osseointegration in smokers. Osseointegration refers to a direct structural and functional connection between bone & implant. smoking is a significant factor in the failure of dental implants.Smoking leads to an increased incidence of non-union, lower bone density and increased time to union in fracture healing. An electronic search was undertaken in PubMed/Medline, Cochrane. Main search terms used as dental implants, smoking, tobacco. Eligibilitycriteriaincludedclinicalhumanstudies, eitherrandomizedor not.Cigarette smoking has a detrimental effect on bone quality around implant.The present review suggest that smoking was identified a significant risk factor for dental implant therapy & the insertion of dental implants in smokers affects the implant success rate as well as the marginal bone loss.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Yesha Shroff, Dr. Monali Shah, Dr. Mrugank Vyas, Dr. Rujuta Pandya
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