Any dental clinician that places or restores dental implants needs to understand the healing process that occurs around dental implants. In this episode, medical and dental literature sources are explored that attempt to explain why bone loss occurs marginally around dental implants looking beyond subgingival cement or bacterial plaque as the primary etiologies.

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ARTICLE CITATIONS:

Qian, Jie, Ann Wennerberg, and Tomas Albrektsson. "Reasons for marginal bone loss around oral implants." Clinical implant dentistry and related research 14.6 (2012): 792-807.

Albrektsson, Tomas, et al. "An Imbalance of the Immune System Instead of a Disease Behind Marginal Bone Loss Around Oral Implants: Position Paper." International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Implants 35.3 (2020).

Takayanagi, Hiroshi. "New developments in osteoimmunology." Nature Reviews Rheumatology 8.11 (2012): 684.

Albrektsson, Tomas, et al. "Is marginal bone loss around oral implants the result of a provoked foreign body reaction?." Clinical implant dentistry and related research 16.2 (2014): 155-165.