title: A comparison between screw- and cement-retained implant prostheses. A literature review.
abstract: Implant-supported restorations can be secured to implants with screws (screw-retained), or they can be cemented to abutments which are attached to implants with screws (cement-retained). This literature review discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each method of retention from different aspects. These aspects include: ease of fabrication and cost, esthetics, access, occlusion, retention, incidence of loss of retention, retrievability, clinical prosthesis fit, restriction of implant position, effect on peri-implant tissue health, provisionalization, immediate loading, impression procedures, porcelain fracture, and clinical performance. Peer-reviewed literature published in the English language between 1955 and 2010 was reviewed using PubMed and hand searches. Since the choice of using either method of retention is still controversial, this review article offers some clinical situations that prefer one method of retention over the other. The review demonstrated that each method of retention has certain advantages and disadvantages; however, there are some clinical situations in which it is better to select one method of retention rather than the other.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Arab American University, Jenin, Palestinian Territory. rola_shadeed@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Rola
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shadid
authors.forename: Nasrin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sadaqa
mesh_terms: D002484:Cementation / Q000379:methods*; D003738:Dental Cements / Q000737:chemistry; D015921:Dental Implants; D018772:Dental Marginal Adaptation; D003766:Dental Occlusion; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design; D017268:Dental Prosthesis Retention / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported / Q000295:instrumentation; D019232:Dental Restoration Failure; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D003738:Dental Cements; D015921:Dental Implants