Survival of Dental Implants on Irradiated Jaws: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Dental implants play a significant role in functional rehabilitation of the oral cavity after debilitating jaw surgeries for oral cavity cancers followed by radiotherapy.

Design

The meta-analysis was done using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review (PRISMA) guidelines published from January 1947 till August 2020. Twenty three articles consisting of 1246 participants with 4838 implants were included in our analysis.

Results

The mean age of the included participants was 51.4 years. 2186 and 1685 implants were placed on irradiated and non-irradiated jaws and showed a success rate of 82.47% and 89.37% respectively. Correspondingly, publication bias of p value = 0.2129 and p-value = 0.6525 was found by Egger's and Begg's test respectively

SUBMITTER: Kende PP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9474974 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature