Are you designing and placing dental implants to fail? You might be setting your patients up for implant failures without even realizing it. There are dozens or even hundreds of factors that contribute to implant failures, but some of these are more important than others. Ultimately, dental implants are mechanical systems (though we place them into biological foundations). If your mechanical system isn't designed properly, then it will fail–and so will your implant! Look, we're dentists. Most of us didn't go to engineering school. Yet it's important to have an understanding of the forces acting on our implants and crowns so we can design systems that result in axial loads.

I'll be showing some other failures in the coming weeks, but in today's video, we'll walk through some implant failures and I'll explain how the design of these implants and crowns led to their ultimate failure.