title: Prevalence of complications after the oral rehabilitation with implant-supported hybrid prostheses.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Assess the main problems referred by the patients and observed by the professionals after the bucodental rehabilitation with an implant-supported hybrid prothesis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study was carried out in which there were 43 patients included who were visited in the Department of Oral Surgery and Orofacial Implantology of University of Barcelona Dental School for one year. An oral rehabilitation with an implant-supported hybrid prosthesis was made to those patients. The following variables were registered: age, gender, number of inserted implants, type of implant and principal problems produced by the hybrid prosthesis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The rehabilitation with an implant supported hybrid prosthesis was only performed in 43 of 116 cases treated in one year (January, 2006 to January, 2007). They were 26 men and 17 women of ages between 37 and 74 years, being the rate age of 56,5 years. The main complication recorded was the mucositis, associated frequently with a difficulty to carry a correct oral hygiene and to an overextention of the tail of resin of the prosthesis. Other observed problems were the peri-implantitis, the break of the acrylic teeth and the loss of some of the prosthetic screws.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The most frequent complication after the laying of an implant supported hybrid prosthesis was the mucositis, associated mainly with a prosthetic tail too long and to the consequent difficulty of carrying a correct oral hygiene. In spite of the high prevalence of observed complications, most of them were mild and resolved on subsequent visits.
authors: Oral Surgery and Implantology, University of Barcelona Dental School, Barcelona, Spain.
authors: Júlia
authors: J
authors: Real-Osuna
authors: Nieves
authors: N
authors: Almendros-Marqués
authors: Cosme
authors: C
authors: Gay-Escoda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D012189:Retrospective Studies