Assessment of implant stability- A short communication

Abstract

Knowledge of stability is essential to the achievement of successful outcomes in dental and orthopaedic implantology. Assessment of this interface is fundamental to the investigation of implant stability, since poor integration at this region may result in complications such as loss-of-implant-failures. There are several methods to assessing this stability from traditional histological analysis, which is invasive in nature and targets tissue at a specific time point during or after healing, but also clinical assessments and imaging modalities .Furthermore, these methodologies are clearly useful in predicting implant survival time as well as provide information to clinicians of an optimal excipient period for loading. This article will provide an in depth review of currently available tools to assess implant stability.