A longitudinal study of the survival of All-on-4 implants in the mandible with up to 10 Years of follow-up

作者：Malo Paulo; Nobre Miguel de Araujo^*; Lopez Armando; Moss Steve M; Molina Guillermo J

来源：Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA), 2011, 142(3): 310-320.

DOI：10.14219/jada.archive.2011.0170

• Dental implants
• implant angulation
• complete arch
• immediate function
• immediate load
• mandible

Background. Immediate-function implants have become an accepted alternative for fixed restoration protocols in edentulous mandibles on the basis of documented high success rates. The All-on-4 concept (Nobel Biocare, Goteborg, Sweden), a surgical and prosthetic protocol for immediate function involving the use of four implants to support a fixed prosthesis in patients with completely edentulous mandibles, represents one of these protocols. The authors conducted a study to document long-term follow-up of the All-on-4 concept.
Methods. This longitudinal study included 245 patients with a total of 980 immediate-function implants (four per patient), all placed in the anterior region, to support fixed full-arch mandibular prostheses. The inclusion criterion was having an edentulous mandible, or a mandible with hopeless teeth, in need of fixed implant restorations.
Results. A total of 21 implants failed in 13 patients, giving cumulative patient-related and implant-related success rates of 94.8 percent and 98.1 percent, respectively, at five years, and 93.8 percent and 94.8 percent, respectively, with up to 10 years of follow-up. The prostheses' survival rate was 99.2 percent with up to 10 years of follow up.
Conclusions. The results support the conclusion that use of the All-on-4 immediate-function implant concept in completely edentulous mandibles is viable in the long term.
Clinical Implications. High prosthesis survival rates can be achieved by the use of four implants to support a full-arch fixed prosthesis in the mandible.

• 出版日期2011-3