Category: I

Implants may be placed simultaneously with a sinus floor elevation when the residual bone height is sufficient for primary implant stability. Otherwise, a staged approach must be considered.  

Irradiated cancer patients are at higher risk for failure to achieve osseointegration. However, the use of long implants, fixed retention, and adjuvant hyperbaric oxygen therapy has resulted in a decrease of implant failures. Clearly, the clinician and patient should be aware of the considerations involving irradiated patients, and a team approach should be applied.  

Surgical steps involved in stage one or flapless surgery.  

Radiolucency localized at the apex of a root‐form dental implant. It can be asymptomatic or symptomatic. The symptoms of the acute form may include a fistula with purulent exudate and/or pain on palpation.  

Complete or partial removable prosthesis that covers and is supported by dental implants, individual or splinted, and related tissue structures.  

Cervix. Root‐form dental implant: the most coronal aspect of a dental implant. Subperiosteal or blade implant: the transmucosal segment connecting the implant to the head or abutment.  

Component positioned onto the implant facilitating surgical placement of the implant into the osteotomy site. May be removed by loosening the attachment mechanism to the implant, either through removal of a screw or release of a frictional fit into the implant.  

Clinically detectable motion of a dental implant.  

Relative motion between an implant body and its investing tissues at the microscopic level; not clinically visible.