LETTER TO EDITOR
Year : 2012 | Volume
: 23 | Issue : 4 | Page : 554-
Dental implantation and anaerobic bacteria
Ali M Tavana
Health Management Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Ali M Tavana
Health Management Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran
Iran
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Tavana AM. Dental implantation and anaerobic bacteria.Indian J Dent Res 2012;23:554-554
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Sir,
Dental microbial biofilm plays an important role in different types of periodontal diseases and peri-implantitis. It is said that more than 400 bacterial species are localized in the subgingival plaque. [1],[2] Very common bacteria species-Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Fusobacterium nucleatum, Tannerella forsythensis (Bacteroides forsythus), Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia and spirochetes have also been identified from symptomatic infected implants. [3],[4]
Bacterial infection is the main reason of failing implant. [5] It is known that a high prevalence of putative periodontopathogens in the pockets around dental implants of periodontal patients should indicate an increased risk of infection and Prevotella spp. and Porphyromonas spp. are, most often, isolated. [6] Nowadays studies have shown an increase of resistance in Prevotella spp. and Porphyromonas spp. [6],[7] Little is known about the participation of black-pigmented gram-negative strict anaerobic rods in the different oral infectious processes or about the interaction of different metals from implants on specific oral organisms, the isolation and identification of Prevotella and Porphyromonas species from osseointegrated implants. [8] The role of P.corporis in many oral infectious diseases is also not clear. [9] This organism may possibly be involved in dental implant failure but many more studies are necessary to clear the fact.
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