Single-Implant Complications: Biomechanics, Incidence, and Prevention

The single implant is now a routine solution in both the anterior and posterior sectors, and precisely for that reason its failures recur with a recognisable pattern. Goodacre and Naylor organise the volume around the most frequent complications — infraocclusion, loss of interproximal contact, abutment screw loosening or fracture, implant fracture, ceramic chipping and fracture, crowns that come uncemented and crowns that have to be remade — and trace them back to the biomechanical principles breached in planning or in execution. Each complication is accompanied by its clinical management and by the measures that prevent it recurring. A text of analysis rather than recipes: what failed, why and how to prevent it.