Journal of Oral Implants

Review Article

Meta-Analysis of Oral Implant Fracture Incidence and Related Determinants

Table 1

Details of the 69 included publications on dental implant fracture: study design (prospective study, retrospective study, case series, and case report), number of implants investigated, and number (incidence) of implant fractures observed.


Study	Study design	Number of implants	Implant fractures

Adell et al. 1981 [5]	prospective	2768	69 (2.5%)
Adell et al. 1990 [6]	prospective	4636	334 (7.2%)
Anneroth et al. 1990 [7]	case report	1	1
Bahat 2000 [8]	prospective	660	4 (0.6%)
Balshi 1996 [9]	retrospective	4045	8 (0.2%)
Bianchi et al. 1997 [10]	case report	1	1
Brägger et al. 2001 [11]	prospective	105	2 (1.9%)
Brånemark et al. 1977 [12]	retrospective	1618	13 (0.8%)
Brocard et al. 2000 [13]	prospective	1022	8 (0.8%)
Brunel et al. 2000 [14]	case report	1	1
Buser et al. 1997 [15]	prospective	2359	3 (0.1%)
Conrad et al. 2008 [16]	case series	2	1
Corpe et al. 1999 [17]	case series	11	5
Covani et al. 2006 [18]	case series	9	9
Cranin et al. 1990 [19]	case series	22	14
Eckert and Wollan 1998 [20]	retrospective	1170	15 (1.3%)
Eckert et al. 2000 [21]	retrospective	4937	28 (0.6%)
Gargallo-Albiol et al. 2008 [22]	prospective	1500	21 (0.1%)
Gibney 2004 [23]	case report	1	1
Gunne et al. 1994 [24]	prospective	558	3 (0.5%)
Henry et al. 1995 [25]	retrospective	83	1 (1.2%)
Iezzi et al. 2008 [26]	case series	2	1
Ivanoff et al. 1999 [27]	retrospective	299	1 (0.3%)
Ivanoff et al. 2000 [28]	retrospective	207	15 (7.2%)
Laine et al. 2005 [29]	retrospective	30	1 (3.3%)
Lekholm et al. 1994 [30]	prospective	558	5 (0.9%)
Lekholm et al. 1999 [31]	prospective	461	8 (1.7%)
Lekholm et al. 2006 [32]	retrospective	112	4 (3.6%)
Levine et al. 1999 [33]	retrospective	174	3 (1.7%)
Malmqvist and Sennerby 1990 [34]	prospective	47	2 (4.3%)
Mau et al. 2003 [35]	case series	6	6
Mericske-Stern et al. 1994 [36]	prospective	66	1 (1.5%)
Mericske-Stern et al. 2001 [37]	retrospective	132	7 (5.3%)
Morgan et al. 1993 [38]	case series	5	5
Muroff 2003 [39]	case report	1	1
Naert et al. 1992 [40]	prospective	589	3 (0.5%)
Naert et al. 1992 [41]	prospective	509	5 (1.0%)
Naert et al. 2001 [42]	retrospective	339	5 (1.5%)
Noack et al. 1999 [43]	retrospective	1964	14 (0.7%)
Örtorp and Jemt 2006 [44]	retrospective	1028	6 (0.6%)
Piattelli et al. 1998 [45]	case series	4	4
Piattelli et al. 1998 [46]	case report	1	1
Piattelli et al. 1998 [47]	case series	7	4
Piattelli et al. 1998 [48]	retrospective	230	60 (26.1%)
Polizzi et al. 1999 [49]	prospective	30	1 (3.3%)
Proussaefs et al. 2001 [50]	case series	3	1
Pylant et al. 1992 [51]	retrospective	102	1 (1.0%)
Quirynen et al. 1992 [52]	retrospective	509	5 (1.0%)
Rangert et al. 1995 [53]	case series	41	41
Romanos and Nentwig 2000 [54]	retrospective	58	1 (1.7%)
Romeo et al. 2004 [55]	prospective	759	3 (0.4%)
Rosenberg and Torosian 1998 [56]	prospective	958	18 (1.9%)
Saadoun and Le Gall 1996 [57]	prospective	1499	7 (0.5%)
Scholander 1999 [58]	retrospective	259	1 (0.4%)
Sennerby et al. 1991 [59]	case series	7	1
Snauwaert et al. 2000 [60]	prospective	4971	21 (0.4%)
Steflik et al. 1994 [61]	case series	50	2
Tagger Green et al. 2002 [62]	case report	1	1
Takeshita et al. 1996 [63]	case series	9	1
Tawil et al. 2006 [64]	retrospective	262	1 (0.4%)
Tolman and Laney 1992 [65]	retrospective	1778	3 (0.2%)
Traini et al. 2006 [66]	case report	1	1
Uehara et al. 2004 [67]	case series	4	2
Vantaggiato et al. 2008 [68]	case series	13	3
Velásquez-Plata et al. 2002 [69]	case report	1	1
Virdee and Bishop 2007 [70]	case report	1	1
Weber et al. 2000 [71]	prospective	112	3 (2.7%)
Weibrich et al. 2001 [72]	prospective	515	1 (0.2%)
Zinsli et al. 2004 [73]	prospective	298	2 (0.7%)

Total	22 prospective 21 retrospective 16 case series 10 case reports	44394	787