This article focused on the effects and success of dental implants in patients suffering

from dental aplasia. Dental aplasia is a disease where those affected lack a number of teeth as

insignificant as wisdom teeth or as incisors and premolars. People with this disease are often

missing permanent teeth, so dental implants provide a “cure” of sorts. The authors and creators

of this study each work in a medical department at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen,

Germany. For my internship, I wanted to research the different dental implants my

dentist/orthodontist used on children in a local setting. This article described the different

implants they used on these patients and the success. It also described the implantation process.

This seemed interesting and relevant to my possible research because what if there was a less

invasive way to implant these devices. The authors concluded that their study was successful

because of the high success rates in each criteria. I think that with the amount of data they had

collected, the study would have been considered successful by most. The patients retained their

implants and they implants were functional for long after original implantation.

Citation

Attia, S., Schaper, E., Schaaf, H., Pons-Kühnemann, J., Schlenz, M. A., Streckbein, P., Böttger,

S., Howaldt, H.-P., & Wilbrand, J.-F. (2019). Evaluation of Implant Success in Patients

with Dental Aplasia. BioMed Research International, 1