2016 Volume 29 Issue 3 Pages 186-191
In 2013, we formed the Nagano-ken Dental Implant Network (NDIN) for constructing a system of cooperation between hospitals and clinics in dental implant treatment. In this study, we conducted a retrospective review of the patients who underwent dental implant treatment in the network hospitals and investigated the effects of the NDIN. Ten hospitals participated in the NDIN. From 2006 to 2014, 2,124 patients underwent dental implant treatment in the network hospitals. Of these, 1,502 (70.2%) were treated under the hospital and clinic cooperation. The rate of such cooperation had increased since the formation of the NDIN. The cooperation included 833 (55.5%) cases of first-stage surgery and/or second-stage surgery, followed by 489 (32.6%) cases of total implant treatment to setting the superstructure, 80 (5.3%) cases of consultation, 54 (3.6%) cases of management of complications, and 34 (2.3%) cases of imaging diagnosis with computed tomography scan. After forming the NDIN, the proportion of requests for total implant treatment had increased.
