Smoking & Implant Failure: An Evidence Based Review

Abstract

The purpose of this review article is to collect the published data concerning factors affecting Osseointegration in smokers. Osseointegration refers to a direct structural and functional connection between bone & implant. smoking is a significant factor in the failure of dental implants.Smoking leads to an increased incidence of non-union, lower bone density and increased time to union in fracture healing. An electronic search was undertaken in PubMed/Medline, Cochrane. Main search terms used as dental implants, smoking, tobacco. Eligibilitycriteriaincludedclinicalhumanstudies, eitherrandomizedor not.Cigarette smoking has a detrimental effect on bone quality around implant.The present review suggest that smoking was identified a significant risk factor for dental implant therapy & the insertion of dental implants in smokers affects the implant success rate as well as the marginal bone loss.