What are the future directions for research on materials and designs of dental implants and on clinical management?
What is the Evidence That Implants Are Effective for the Long Term? Criteria of success vary with different implant systems. Therefore, it is difficult to compare certain types of implants for which success criteria and indications may be different. Furthermore, for implants that are comparable, proper research designs for comparison (randomized, controlled trials) have not been used. Thus, the panel could only conclude that there is evidence from a number of case series studies that when specific types of dental implants are inserted by clinicians experienced with the respective techniques, a large proportion of implants remains in place for periods of 10 years or more. However, it is difficult to make definitive statements on the long-term effectiveness of dental implants from these case series studies because of unreported information and the lack of uniform application of proper research designs. Although the ideal research design for documenting the effectiveness of new treatment
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