Shigeru Ochi

TL;DR: Significantly greater amounts of facial bone loss were associated with implants that failed to integrate and as the bone thickness approached 1.8 to 2 mm, bone loss decreased significantly and some evidence of bone gain was seen.

TL;DR: This manuscript presents stability and survival/failure data for implants of different diameters and lengths following 36 months post-placement, as well as crestal bone loss data between placement and uncovering, to accomplish the comparison of each implant design's overall survival.

TL;DR: Type 2 diabetic patients tend to have more failures than non-diabetic patients; however, the influence was marginally significant; these findings need to be confirmed by other scientific clinical studies with a larger Type 2 diabetic sample size.

TL;DR: Increased implant failures in smokers are not the result of poor healing or osseointegration, but of exposure of peri-implant tissues to tobacco smoke, and data suggest that detrimental effects may be reduced by: 1) cessation of smoking; 2) the use of preoperative antibiotics; and 3) theUse of HA-coated implants.

TL;DR: The results showed a significantly higher survival rate at each stage of treatment in patients who had received preoperative antibiotics.