Maintaining Osseointegration: Understanding, preventing, and treating Risk Factors for Peri-implant Diseases.

The dental implant is a predictable way of restoring fully and partially edentulous patients and has shown high success rate for managing a broad range of clinical conditions. Improving implant surfaces has revolutionized the osseointegration of implants and changed the focus of implant research from osseointegration more toward the risk factors associated with the failure of implants in the long-term.