The evidence in the scientific literature supports that Implant Dentistry obtains a success rate of greater than 90%. With an increasing trend for number and acceptance of dental implants used as a viable tooth replacement therapy, complications and failure rates have increased proportionally.

Complications and failures in implant dentistry can range from minor to major, reversible to irreversible and problematic to detrimental. As a result, these clinical problems will cause frustrations and disappointments for our patients and the dental professionals. These problems can have many different levels of undesirable consequences that can lead to compromise or less than optimal clinical results for our patients, non-productive wasted clinical chair time, extra financial burden to the patient and dentist, create antagonistic tension with our patients and ultimately affect the reputation of the dentist and the profession.

The documentation in the scientific literature has provided long terms follow up and evidence for the different classifications of complications and failures in implant dentistry. Understanding the various modes of complications and failures in implant dentistry can lead to prevention, early detections, and management of these implant cases.

Course Learning Objectives:

• Learn the classifications and incidence rates of the various modes of implant complications
and failure rates
• Recognize early detections and prevention for these complications before they occur
• Learn various clinical techniques to manage and treat the implant complications in each of
the various classifications
• Understand the importance of good patient selection criteria for Implant Dentistry
• Make a thorough treatment planning in terms of implant selection, number and
position, type of process (prosthetically driven vs surgically driven)
• Manage implant occlusion and parafunctional habits


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