Dental Implant Safety
You may be keen to know about dental implant safety and success rates. Dental implants are amongst the safest and most successful implantable medical device. Implant placement is an invasive technique but is usually minimally invasive and administered with a local anaesthetic. The success of dental implants is typically in the upper 90’s%.
Those implants that fail may do so due to inadvertent loading or risk factors such as poor bone, smoking and surgical factors. Failure may happen without infection or the patient being aware and result in implant mobility. Successful replacement is commonly achievable.
There is very little published scientific evidence of allergy to titanium. The material demonstrates a high degree of biocompatibility. Careful treatment planning is important as with any medical procedure and it is strongly recommended that patients consult experienced clinicians and specialists for advice and treatment.
