After many years of great euphoria, a certain disillusion has spread in implantology, which is especially due to the reason that implants with corresponding suprastructures do not last forever, like it has often been pointed out. Anyway, complications cannot totally be excluded. Professor Herbert Deppe, Chair for the Dental Surgery and Implantology Department of Munich University, has recently reported on the fact that approximately an eights of incorporated implants show periimplantary lesions after about 10 years. In the beginning, the main fear was that enossal implants had to face early complications. Nowadays, this is no more the case since sophisticated surgery techniques and improved implant surfaces have reduced these risks.
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