Do dentists receive the support they need from educators, dental laboratories, implant manufacturers, implant sellers, and Government regulators to enable them to do a better job for their patients?

Do dentists receive the support they need from educators, dental laboratories, implant manufacturers, implant sellers, and Government regulators to enable them to do a better job for their patients?

Abstract: This article reveals the perspective of a dentist who has spent 40 years providing oral health care for his patients, doing focused research to identify the root causes of prostheses installation related complications, and sharing his results with colleagues. To his dismay, he found that the dental health care system seems to have lost its patient-centric focus. Do dentists receive the support they need from education sources, dental laboratories, implant manufacturers, implant sellers, and Government regulators to enable them to do a better job for their patients? Does their dental support team still deserve the dentist’s trust, or have they covertly shifted their focus to maximizing sales by misleading dentists about the safety of the procedures they promote? Are they using dentists as shields to protect themselves from the wrath of patients disappointed with treatment results? Really, how can dentists accept the full brunt of responsibility for treatment results when they are not provided with pertinent information about the dental implant products they buy, nor given manufacturer’s installation instructions along with disclosure of the related risk of complications? How can they even provide their patients with a proper consent process? These are the issues discussed in this article, along with some suggestions to improve implant treatment for patients.

Key Words: dental implants, dental implant companies, implant manufacturers, Government regulators, Health Canada, FDA, peri-implant disease, peri-implantitis, implant failure, treatment complications, prosthesis dimensional error, tissue effects, resistance to displacement, gingival effects, dental implant
prosthesis, implant-retained crowns and bridges, implant-abutment misfits, subgingival cement, Reverse Margin System, Chamfer Margin System, screw-in prosthesis installation system, intraoral cementation.

Citation: Svoboda ELA. Do dentists receive the support they need from education sources, dental laboratories, implant manufacturers, implant sellers, and Government regulators to enable them to do a better job for their patients? Sept 2022: Spectrum Implants in Press and at www.ReverseMargin.com: 1- 12.