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. 2018 May 8;4(1):14.
doi: 10.1186/s40729-018-0125-7.

A preliminary report on dental implant condition among dependent elderly based on the survey among Japanese dental practitioners

Yuji Sato  1 , Shigeto Koyama  2 , Chikahiro Ohkubo  3 , Shin Ogura  4 , Ryutaro Kamijo  5 , Soh Sato  6 , Jun Aida  7 , Yuichi Izumi  8 , Mihoko Atsumi  9 , Akio Isobe  10 , Shunsuke Baba  11 , Noriharu Ikumi  12 , Fumihiko Watanabe  13
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A preliminary report on dental implant condition among dependent elderly based on the survey among Japanese dental practitioners

Yuji Sato et al. Int J Implant Dent. .

Abstract

Background: The objective of this study was to ascertain the situation relevant to implants, the status of oral self-care, the status of aftercare provided by the dentist who placed the implant, and the usage status of the implant card, in homebound or institutionalized older adults who are receiving home-visit dental care due to the inability to visit a dental clinic on their own.

Methods: A survey questionnaire was sent by post mail to 2339 people who are representative members or dental specialists belonging to any of the following three academic societies: Japanese Society of Oral Implantology, Japanese Society of Gerodontology, and Japan Prosthodontic Society. The survey questions asked were about provision/no provision of implant treatment, provision/no provision of home-visit dental care, the situation of patients after implant treatment, the situation of implants in the context of home-visit dental care, and the usage status and recognition of the implant card.

Results: No less than 30% of the dentists had patients who were admitted to the hospital or became homebound after receiving implant treatment at their clinic. Twenty-two percent of the dentists had been consulted about the implants. Dentists who continued to provide post-operative implant care through home-visit dental care accounted for approximately 80%. On the other hand, however, 40% of the dentists did not know the post-implantation status of their implant patients. Of the patients receiving home-visit dental care, approximately 3% had implants (identified mainly by visual inspection). It was found that more than 50% of the dentists offering implant treatment did not use the implant card, and even in cases where it was used, most of the cards were not in the standardized format.

Conclusions: Within the limitation of low response rate to the questionnaire in this preliminary study, we concluded that many of practitioners including specialists indicated the need of universal record of implant for dependent elderly cares.

Keywords: Home-visit dental care; Implant; Implant card; Older adults.

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Conflict of interest statement

Ethics approval and consent to participate

The study design and consent forms for all procedures performed on the study subjects were approved by the ethics committee for human subjects at Japanese Society of Oral Implantology in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 as revised in 2008.

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Not applicable

Competing interests

Yuji Sato, Shigeto Koyama, Chikahiro Ohkubo, Shin Ogura, Ryutaro Kamijo, Satoru Sato, Jun Aida, Yuuichi Izumi, Mihoko Atsumi, Akio Isobe, Shunsuke Baba, Noriharu Ikumi, and Fumihiko Watanabe declare that they have no financial, commercial, academic, or any other competing interests.

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Breakdown of respondents. The retrieval rate was approximately 40% in each of the three societies
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Three implants were embedded in an artificial mandible
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