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Jedediah posted an update
Failures are apart of dentistry and any profession whether we like it or not. Our responsibility and goal is to deal with them in an effiecient and professional manner. With all the research articles and studies out there implants typically have a 96% to 97% survival rate at 10 years. This means on average you will have 3 to 4 implant failures for every 100 implants you place.
Typically truley failed implants are easy to reverse out, clean, and regraft. Always, try to find out what caused the failure (medical history, insufficient bone, poor occlusion, etc.). Dispite our best efforts there may not be an identifiable reason but we typically can learn from each experience and carry to the next surgery.
Ivan, Andrea and Cayleen1 Comment-
I think the self doubt that comes from failures or criticism is one of the biggest issues in our profession.
One big stumbling block is that pressure you get from these things and it often gets blown out of proportion in your head
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