- HIGH
- Research
- Tier 1
- Peer-Reviewed Research
Advances in the microbiological characteristics of peri-implant health
- Source
- Periodontology 2000
- Author
- Alexandra Stähli, Kiri N. Lang, Muhamet Ademi, Anton Sculean, Giovanni E. Salvi, Sigrun Eick
- Originally at
- onlinelibrary.wiley.com(opens in a new tab)
Summary and scoring by The Bell Brief (Dr. Jennifer Bell) using the Drill-Down Protocol. Not the original publisher.
Why it matters for dental
Peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis show consistent enrichment of periodontal pathobionts and depletion of commensals across detection methods, a finding relevant to specialists managing implant patients.
Key points
- 01
Systematic review compared microbiological profiles across peri-implant health, mucositis, and peri-implantitis using conventional and next-generation sequencing methods.
- 02
Conventional detection methods showed higher frequency of Porphyromonas gingivalis, Tannerella forsythia, Treponema denticola, Prevotella intermedia, and Fusobacterium nucleatum at diseased implant sites.
- 03
NGS-based studies reported higher relative abundance of periodontal pathobionts at diseased sites, with inconsistent alpha diversity findings between studies.
- 04
Methodological heterogeneity in disease definitions, sampling strategies, and risk of bias limits direct comparisons and clinical application of microbial profiles.
Who should care
- Specialist
- Academia / research
Read the original
Periodontology 2000
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