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<strong>16</strong> Osseointegration and Dental Implants<br />

Table 1.3. Search strategy for different types of reconstructions.<br />

when no data were available with respect to<br />

the reconstruction, or if no distinction was<br />

made between the type of reconstruction<br />

or between totally and partially edentulous<br />

patients. Also excluded were publications<br />

based on questionnaires or interviews without<br />

clinical examinations, multiple publications<br />

on the same patient cohorts, and case descriptions<br />

of failures without relevant information<br />

on the entire patient cohort.<br />

Data Extraction<br />

Implant-Supported<br />

FDPs<br />

Data were extracted independently by at least<br />

two reviewers using a data extraction form.<br />

Disagreement regarding data extraction was<br />

resolved by consensus.<br />

Information was retrieved on the survival<br />

and success rates of the reconstructions and<br />

on biological and technical complications.<br />

Survival was defi ned as the reconstruction<br />

remaining in situ at the follow-up examination<br />

visit irrespective of its condition. Success<br />

was defi ned as the reconstruction that<br />

remained unchanged and did not require any<br />

intervention during the entire observation<br />

period.<br />

Biological complications for implant and<br />

combined tooth-implant-supported reconstructions<br />

were characterized by a biological<br />

process affecting the supporting tissues.<br />

Included in this category were soft tissue com-<br />

Combined Tooth-Implant-<br />

Supported FDPs<br />

First electronic search—titles 3,844 3,844 3,601<br />

Abstracts 560 560 543<br />

Full text articles 151 151 54<br />

Full text articles added by<br />

manual search<br />

25 25 0<br />

Total full text articles <strong>17</strong>6 <strong>17</strong>6 54<br />

Included articles 29 14 26<br />

plications, peri-implantitis, bone loss exceeding<br />

2 mm, intrusion of abutment teeth, and<br />

aesthetic complications.<br />

Technical complications for implant and<br />

combined tooth-implant-supported reconstructions<br />

were denoted by mechanical<br />

damage of implants, implant components,<br />

and/or the suprastructures. Included were<br />

fractures of the implants, fractures of screws<br />

or abutments, loss of retention, fractures or<br />

deformations of the framework or veneers,<br />

loss of the screw access hole restoration, and<br />

screw or abutment loosening.<br />

For all these categories the number of<br />

events was extracted and the corresponding<br />

total exposure time of the reconstructions<br />

was calculated.<br />

Statistical Analysis<br />

Implant-Supported<br />

Single Crowns<br />

Failure and complication rates were calculated<br />

by dividing the number of events (failures<br />

or complications) in the numerator by<br />

the total exposure time of the reconstruction<br />

in the denominator.<br />

The numerator could usually be extracted<br />

directly from the publication. The total exposure<br />

time was calculated by taking the<br />

sum of<br />

1. Exposure time of reconstructions that<br />

could be followed for the entire observation<br />

time.

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