General Dental Practitioners and Implant Suprastructures

From Volume 32, Issue 6, July 2005 | Pages 355-361

Authors

Geoffrey D Wood

Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Arrowe Park Hospital, Upton, Wirrai, Merseyside, CH49 5PE

Articles by Geoffrey D Wood

Farah A Ramjohn

Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Liverpool Dental School, Pembroke Place, Liverpool

Articles by Farah A Ramjohn

Abstract

Patients with implants inserted by one consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon whose suprastructures were made either by general dental practitioners (GDPs) or the Consultant Service were reviewed and compared. A total of 88 patients with 224 implants inserted over a 12-year period (1991-2003) were identified and contacted while 28 patients with 83 implants volunteered to be examined. Implants survived equally well with GDP-and consultant-produced suprastructures.

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