抄録
Japanese Association for Dental Science set up a research project“ lnvestigation of the present status of oral implantology”. Dr. SHOJI ENOMOTO (professor of oral surgery in Tokyo Med.＆ Den. Univ.) and 8 others made a project team for the investigation. The authors took part in the project. We mainly investigated the prognosis of clinical implantology.
Thirty-four questions were selected and mailed to 430 active members of Japan Society of Oral Implantology. The major questions were as follows; 1.personal conditions when starting implant clinic, 2.personal histories of implant clinic, 3. fees of implant and superstructure, 4. prognosis of each implant and recall system, 5. failures of implants and it's follow-up, 6. success criteria of implants and 7. opinions and attitudes toward future implantology.
One hundred and fifty-two answered questionnaires (35.3%) were returned. As a result, the confirmation of the present status of failure rate and survival rate of each implants was unobtainable. However, we collected plenty of information on clinical implantology in our country. And especially, educational conditions, personal histories of implants applied in clinic, fees of implants and superstructures, recall of implanted patients, success criteria, opinions and attitudes toward future implantology, and the trends of Japanese clinical implantology became apparent. We think that new materials and designs for implants will be developed, and clinical implantology will gain a more important position in the daily dental clinic in the 21st century.
University men should realize the reliability of oral implants, reform the educational curricula and try to catch up with Euro-American dental schools and offer good educational opportunities for the freshmen in implantology.
