The primary focus of the present study was to evaluate the occurrence of Candida albicans isolatesin the oral cavity and its probable correlation with dental implant applications and prosthesis. Wecollected oral swabs from patients who had attended private dentistry clinics, followed by stringentand controlled antifungal susceptibility testing and calculation of colony forming units (CFUs).Amph...

The effect of local application of autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) on bone healing in combination with the use of titanium implants with 2 different surface configurations was investigated. PRP fractions were obtained from venous blood sample of 6 goats and applied via gel preparation and subsequent installation in the implant site or via dipping of the implant in PRP liquid before insert...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the oral health-related quality of life of patients treated with implant-supported mandibular overdentures and to compare the attachment systems used. MATERIAL AND METHODS Altogether 112 patients treated with implant-supported mandibular overdentures in 1985 - 2004 were invited to the follow-up; 58 of them attended and replied to the Oral H...

This review is made to establish the convenience of dental implant treatment in patients receiving bisphosphonates or programmed to receive such drugs, with a description of their mechanisms of action and the way in which they can affect the mandibular or maxillary bone of dental implant candidates. In turn, a description is provided of the key elements for evaluating the benefit-risk ratio in ...

Though recent studies report decisive positive effects on cells, elicited by ultraviolet (UV)-induced bioactivation of biomaterial implant surfaces, they frequently employ cells other than of human origin or cells not representing oral implant targets. Therefore, the present study aims at exploring distinct cell functions of primary human alveolar bone osteoblasts (PHABO) in response to bioacti...

peri-implantitis is a site-specifi c infectious disease that causes an infl ammatory process in soft tissues, and bone loss around an osseointegrated implant in function. the etiology of the implant infection is conditioned by the status of the tissue surrounding the implant, implant design, degree of roughness, external morphology, and excessive mechanical load. the microorganisms most commonl...

BACKGROUND Cochlear implant in children, speech perception and oral language, hearing and oral language performance in children with pre-lingual profound sensory-neural hearing impairment, users of cochlear implant. AIM To study the hearing and oral language performance of children with pre-lingual bilateral profound sensory neural hearing impairment, users of multi-channel cochlear implant c...

BACKGROUND When teeth are extracted, sensory function is decreased by a loss of periodontal ligament receptions. When replacing teeth by oral implants, one hopes to restore the sensory feedback pathway as such to allow for physiological implant integration and optimized oral function with implant-supported prostheses. What remains to be investigated is how to adapt to different oral rehabilitat...

This article introduces a new technique using histomorphometrics to estimate the extent of bone-to-implant contact that might be expected on an implant surface in relation to the quality of the surrounding bone. Two implant surfaces, one machined and one Osseotite, were compared on the same implant in the same patient Eleven of these custom-made 2-mm-diameter implants were placed in the posteri...

Background: Although implants have shown to have a high success rate, clinicians are also called upon to encounter numerous complications and failures. Among the numerous reasons of failures, peri-implantitis is reported to account for 10% of the failures. As the oral cavity provides a natural habitat for various micro-organism due to its non-shedding surface, there is some evidence that gram-n...