Only articles about dental implants from PEEK or modified PEEK published until December 2010 were included, regardless of the kind of investigation (in vivo or in vitro), implant design, surface modifications, year of publication, and language.
Material & methods: PEEK Dental Implants
author: Andreas Schwitalla, DDS Wolf-Dieter Mller, PhD | publisher: drg. Andreas Tjandra, Sp. Perio, FISID
Materials and Methods
Literature search
The articles for the current review were found using the PubMed search engine and searching for references cited within these articles. All articles published until December 2010 were reviewed. The following search terms were used together: “dental implant PEEK.”
Inclusion criteria
Only articles about dental implants from PEEK or modified PEEK published until December 2010 were included, regardless of the kind of investigation (in vivo or in vitro), implant design, surface modifications, year of publication, and language.
Serial posts:
- Abstract: PEEK Dental Implants
- Introduction: PEEK Dental Implants
- Material & methods: PEEK Dental Implants
- Result: PEEK Dental Implants
- Table 1: Overview of an in vitro 3-dimensional finite element study
- Table 2. Overview of 2 in vivo animal investigations
- Discussion: PEEK Dental Implants
- Table 3. Mean values of bone-related and implant-related bone level
- Table 4. Differences in the mean insertion depths
- Conclusion: PEEK Dental Implants