title: Supportive post-implant therapy: patient compliance rates and impacting factors: 3-year follow-up.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate patient compliance rates and influential factors regarding a systematic SIT program.
  
  
  METHODS
  Between 2005 and 2008, we identified all patients who were provided with implant-supported restorations in the study centre. They had been recommended to attend a SIT program with a 3-month recall. In 2012, a clinical retrospective cohort study on compliance rates over the first 3 years was performed different data were assessed in a regression analysis to identify potential influential factors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The inclusion criteria were met by 236 patients with 540 implants. Non-compliance rates increased over the 3 years (5.37%/7.78%/13.33%). Total non-compliance was observed in four patients (1.69%). No correlation to patient compliance was detected for "Age," "Gender," "Cardiovascular disease," "Pus/suppuration," or "Surgical case complexity." No decreasing effect of higher compliance rates on the patients' bleeding on probing (BOP+) values was found, but a statistical significance between lower compliance rates and increased pocket probing depth (PPD) was detected. The correlation between the presence of plaque and compliance did not reach statistical significance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  When patients with implant-supported restorations are strongly recommended to comply with a SIT program with a 3-month recall, considerably high rates of compliance can be achieved.
authors.affiliation: Northern Hessia Implant Center, Hofgeismar, Germany.
authors.forename: Eberhard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Frisch
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ziebolz
authors.forename: Kirstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vach
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ratka-Krüger
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications; D015921:Dental Implants; D003774:Dental Plaque Index; D003777:Dental Prophylaxis; D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D009910:Oral Hygiene / Q000193:education; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010512:Periodontal Index; D010514:Periodontal Pocket / Q000145:classification; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking; D013492:Suppuration
chemical_list: D015921:Dental Implants
keywords: Implant; compliance; hygiene; maintenance; peri-implantitis; retrospective study; smoking