State Of The Art In The Therapeutic Maintenance And Management Of Dental Implants Today: Focus On Mucositis And Perimplantitis

Current oral rehabilitation protocols using implants is aimed at substituting the wasted and lost dental pillar, thus realizing a stable prosthesis. Obviously, the increasing utilization of oral implants has determined an evolution of rehabilitative implant protocols requiring a proper adaption of the dental professionals. Postsurgical case management to preserve the reached rehabilitative results through implant prosthesis is supported, at now, by a number of consolidated protocols of dental hygiene. This practice plays a decisive role into prevention of peri-implantar pathologies by application of a preventive and/or therapeutic protocols. Dental industries, furthermore, in order to satisfy the new operative needs of professional oral hygiene, have contrived and produced new instrumentations, in accordance with achieved scientific results. The purpose of this review is a brief survey of the “state of the art” in post-surgical dental implant management, with the aim to report the current protocols available to reduce the risk of oral disease and to arrest the progression of the peri-implant complications. Either surgical or non surgical therapy for mucositis and peri-implantitis are considered.