Dental Implants
The dental implant surgery is a procedure that replaces tooth roots with metal bolts that seem screws and replaces the missing tooth, or damaged, with an artificial tooth that looks the same and plays the same role as the real teeth.
Peri-implantitis
When there is a loss of coverage of soft tissue and/or bone, the resultant inflammation around the implant known as peri-implantitis.
Possible Causes
There is a significantly higher incidence of peri-implantitis in individuals with tooth loss associated with periodontitis. A patient with a history of furcation, presents some characteristics of susceptibility genetic, immunological and microbiological may predispose to suffer from this condition.
Other Factors
Diabetes mellitus (uncontrolled) is the systemic disease most influential in this state; have an immune response and healing of the tissues deficient, so they have always been classified as at-risk patients at the time of performing any surgical treatment.
Patients who suffer from hypothyroidism (poorly controlled) may be risk patients at the time of implant placement, since the thyroid hormone regulates numerous physiological processes such as hemostasis, or the healing of the tissues and, in a state of uncontrolled, can stimulate the destruction of the peri-implant tissue.
Surface of the implant and overload
Currently, the pursuit of reducing the loading times of the implants, has made the development of new surfaces more rugosasas, seeking an increase of the bone-implant contact faster.
In studies done on animals have found that surfaces with higher roughness level, have a higher accumulation of bacteria, facilitating the formation of bacterial biofilm and the development of a more severe illness peri-implant
Several authors argue that the
overload occlusal forces or
occlusal excessive in the absence
plate does not occur
peri-implantitis, you can even
lead to an increase in the
bone density, however, in
the presence of bacterial plaque, the
overload occlusal you can
exacerbate gingival inflammation
prior around the implants,
