Immediate Implant vs Delayed Implant Placement - A Review of 100 Cases

Vijay Ebenezer, Balakrishnan Ramalingam, Shanmuga Priyan, M. Rakesh Mohan and T. Muthumani

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospitals, Bharath University, Chennai, India.

ABSTRACT: Implant placement has been a renowned treatment for replacing and restoring missing teeth in recent past. Delayed implant placement signifies the placement of the implant in the healed extracted socket after a minimum of 5-6 months. In this recent world where everything is happening fast and time is something which everyone tries to utilise properly, the patients also want the treatment results immediately instead of waiting for long time. In 1989, it was Lazzara who introduced the technique of immediate implant placement by placing implants at the time of tooth extraction in the extracted tooth socket. In recent years several studies and advancements have been made regarding immediate implant placements. The greatest adavantages of immediate implant placements are they need minimum bone drilling, result in reduced crestal bone loss surrounding the implant and last but not least the patients need not wait for 4-6 months for the implants to be placed. In this article a small sample of 100 patients were treated with immediate implant placement and their results, advantages and disadvantages compared to delayed implant placement were recorded.

KEYWORDS:

Impant; tooth; review

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