Immediate implants (placed in a fresh extraction socket just after tooth extraction) vs Delayed implants (placed at least 2 months after extraction): Implant failure
- Population
- Patients with compromised teeth to be extracted who require single dental implants in fresh postextraction sockets
- Intervention
- Immediate implants (placed in a fresh extraction socket just after tooth extraction)
- Comparison
- Delayed implants (placed at least 2 months after extraction)
- Outcome
- Implant failure
Immediate implants (placed in a fresh extraction socket just after… showed no clear difference in implant failure compared with delayed implants (placed at least 2 months after extraction, in…; GRADE not reported.
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Immediate implants (placed in a fresh extraction socket just after tooth extraction) vs Delayed implants (placed at least 2 months after extraction, in healed bone) Implant failure · Patients with compromised teeth to be extracted who require single dental implants in fresh postextraction sockets · 1 year Immediate implants (placed in a fresh extraction socket just after… showed no clear difference in implant failure compared with delayed implants (placed at least 2 months after extraction, in…; GRADE not reported. Interventions for replacing missing teeth: dental implants in fresh extraction sockets (immediate,… (2010) · Cochrane All outcomes | RR 4.33 [0.76, 24.56] | 2 studies · 110 participants | GRADE not reported |
Immediate implants (placed in a fresh extraction socket just after tooth extraction) vs Delayed implants (placed at least 2 months after extraction, in healed bone) Implant failure · Patients with compromised teeth to be extracted who require single dental implants in fresh postextraction sockets · 1 year Immediate implants (placed in a fresh extraction socket just after… led to lower implant failure compared with delayed implants (placed at least 2 months after extraction, in…; GRADE not reported. Interventions for replacing missing teeth: dental implants in fresh extraction sockets (immediate,… (2006) · Cochrane All outcomesearlier version CD005968.PUB2, superseded | Two early implant failures occurred in the immediate group (2/25 vs 0/25 delayed); no statistically significant difference for implant failures after 1 year (Lindeboom 2006). | 1 study · 50 participants | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interventions for replacing missing teeth: dental implants in fresh extraction sockets (immediate, immediate‐delayed and delayed implants) 2010 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2010-06 | Not listed | Not assessed |
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.