Are Dental Implants a Panacea or Should We Better Strive to Save Teeth?

J Dent Res. 2016 Jan;95(1):5-6. doi: 10.1177/0022034515618942.

Authors

W V Giannobile¹, N P Lang²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, USA Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA wgiannob@umich.edu.
² Department of Periodontology, University of Zurich, Center for Dental Medicine, Switzerland.

PMID: 26701917
DOI: 10.1177/0022034515618942

No abstract available

Keywords: function; implant dentistry; oral implants; peri-implantitis; periodontitis; tooth maintenance.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Dental Implants*
Humans
Patient Care Planning
Peri-Implantitis / etiology
Practice Patterns, Dentists'
Stomatitis / etiology
Survival Analysis
Tooth Extraction
Tooth Loss / prevention & control*
Tooth Loss / rehabilitation
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Dental Implants