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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION
Volume 142, Issue 3, Pages 310-320Publisher
AMER DENTAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2011.0170
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Dental implants; implant angulation; complete arch; immediate function; immediate load; mandible
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Background. Immediate-function implants have become an accepted alternative for fixed restoration protocols in edentulous mandibles on the basis of documented high success rates. The All-on-4 concept (Nobel Biocare, Goteborg, Sweden), a surgical and prosthetic protocol for immediate function involving the use of four implants to support a fixed prosthesis in patients with completely edentulous mandibles, represents one of these protocols. The authors conducted a study to document long-term follow-up of the All-on-4 concept. Methods. This longitudinal study included 245 patients with a total of 980 immediate-function implants (four per patient), all placed in the anterior region, to support fixed full-arch mandibular prostheses. The inclusion criterion was having an edentulous mandible, or a mandible with hopeless teeth, in need of fixed implant restorations. Results. A total of 21 implants failed in 13 patients, giving cumulative patient-related and implant-related success rates of 94.8 percent and 98.1 percent, respectively, at five years, and 93.8 percent and 94.8 percent, respectively, with up to 10 years of follow-up. The prostheses' survival rate was 99.2 percent with up to 10 years of follow up. Conclusions. The results support the conclusion that use of the All-on-4 immediate-function implant concept in completely edentulous mandibles is viable in the long term. Clinical Implications. High prosthesis survival rates can be achieved by the use of four implants to support a full-arch fixed prosthesis in the mandible.
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