title: Functional assessment of dental implant osseointegration.
abstract: Functional ankylosis of dental implants in alveolar bone is the current criterion to assess implant osseointegration from a biomechanical standpoint. In this literature review, the clinical significance and current available assessments of implant stability are discussed. However, these assessments demonstrate a variety of correlations to peri-implant structures and as such are difficult to translate to the clinical arena. Calculating the effective stiffness from homogenization of peri-implant tissues appears to be a more reliable approach to predict implant stability in preclinical studies, but the structure-biomechanical relationship remains a clinical challenge. Despite the limitations in functional assessments of dental implant stability and oral implant biomechanics, this review highlights some emerging approaches to adapt these measures to clinical situations.
authors: Discipline of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore, 11 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore. dencpc@nus.edu.sg
authors: Po-Chun
authors: PC
authors: Chang
authors: William V
authors: WV
authors: Giannobile
mesh_terms: D000539:Alveolar Process / Q000502:physiology; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D015921:Dental Implants; D017268:Dental Prosthesis Retention; D006801:Humans; D016348:Osseointegration / Q000502:physiology*; D013314:Stress, Mechanical
chemical_list: D015921:Dental Implants