Impurities on Sterile Packaged Implants: 

Is the Rise of Cheap Copy-Cat Products a Danger for our Patients?

30 years after the first SEM research about contaminations on dental implants by Wahl et al., we still can find major impurities on many sterile implants today. Not only clinical1,2 but also legal implications may occur in the future if practitioners are using implants of inferior quality. The quality of a dental implant is always the result of appropriate quality management. Results of SEM/EDS analyses in 2017 give cause for concern.

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2) Albrektsson T, Dahlin C, Jemt T, Sennerby L, Turri A, Wennerberg A., Is marginal bone loss around oral implants the result of a provoked foreign body reaction? Clin Implant Dent Relat Res 2014; 16(2): 155–65. doi: 10.1111/cid.12142.

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