Hypertension and Dental Implants: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The aim of the present systematic review was to investigate the influence of hypertension on the dental implant failure rate.

Methods

An electronic search was undertaken in four databases, plus a manual search of journals. The I² statistic was used to check heterogeneity and the inverse-variance method was used for the meta-analysis. The estimate of relative effect for dichotomous outcome was expressed as an odds ratio (OR).

Results

The review included 24 publications. There were 4874 implants (257 failures) placed in hypertensive patients and 16,192 implants (809 failures) placed in normotensive patients. A pairwise meta-analysis showed that implants in hypertensive patients did not have a higher risk of failure than implants placed in normotensive

SUBMITTER: Hamade L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10816909 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature