Dental Implant Success Rate in Pittsburgh

Our Success Statistics: Dental Implants

Dental implants are an excellent, effective, and long lasting alternative to missing teeth. Dental implants are generally superior to bridge work and dentures; often improving the patient’s oral health in a significant matter regardless of the patient’s age. Pinnacle Center – Dental Implants & Periodontics has been successfully placing dental implants into patients with a 99% success rate since 1984. You can take a look at numerous statistics below for our dental implants, but to summarize: out of over 4,000 dental implants that have been issued, less than 200 of them were recalled for various reasons.

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Year	Number Implants Placed	Number Implants Removed	Number Implants Re-implanted	Net Number Implants Lost	Net Percentage Lost	Net Number Implants Retained	Overall Net Percentage Success Rate
1984-1995	208	13	0	13	6%	195	94%
1996	42	4	2	2	5%	40	95%
1997	111	3	2	1	1%	110	99%
1998	96	7	5	2	2%	94	98%
1999	104	5	3	2	2%	99	98%
2000	117	14	11	3	3%	114	97%
2001	105	5	4	1	1%	104	99%
2002	193	13	9	4	2%	189	98%
2003	193	7	8	-1	-1%	194	101%
2004	210	11	11	0	0%	210	100%
2005	216	22	18	4	2%	212	98%
2006	257	8	7	1	0%	256	100%
2007	264	15	8	7	3%	256	97%
2008	315	19	18	1	0%	314	100%
2009	247	7	6	1	0%	246	100%
2010	241	5	6	0	0%	242	100%
2011	257	8	7	1	0%	256	100%
2012	265	4	7	-3	-1%	268	99%
2013	281	12	9	3	1%	279	99%
2014	327	12	6	6	2%	321	98%
2015	289	21	12	9	3%	280	97%
2016	275	22	17	5	2%	270	98%
2017	280	10	11	-1	0%	281	100%
2018	298	13	10	3	1%	295	99%
2019	317	19	12	7	2%	310	98%
2020	264	16	8	8	3%	256	97%
2021	221	12	7	5	2%	216	98%
2022	348	6	6	60	0%	348	100%
Totals	6531	320	238	83	1%	6448	99%

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If you’re still on the fence about getting dental implants, remember that you can try them out for a test drive. You can try out your custom made dental implants for a 45-day period. During that time, you should be able to notice a remarkable difference in your quality of life as dental implants drastically improve your ability to eat, chew, speak, and smile normally. If you end up happy with your dental implants, you can keep them for your lifetime. If you’re not, you can return them and have them removed long with your surgical fee returned.

Dr. Roll and Dr. Williams have tracked their results over many years and can confidently say that, according to statistics, they have a 99% success rate when it comes to placing dental implants.

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Reasons that the implants were removed

Reason	Number
Smoking	39
Infections	65
Bite trauma	3
Poor Healing	37
Poor Bone	38
Short Implants	2
Implant Surfaces	27
1st stage healing failure	53
Implant Fracture	16
Unknown Reasons	16
Total	296

In some cases, multiple reasons existed, but only one reason was assigned.

In more than half of the cases, the removal of the first implant was followed by the successful replacement on the second attempt.

3% of the implants were lost and not replaced.

Over the years manufacturing issues have sometimes created implant surfaces that have contributed to implant failures.

In 2007, seven old style implants were removed from 4 patients that got infected. They were placed in the early 1990’s. They were not replaced.

If you have any questions regarding our success statistics, please feel free to contact us as we would be happy to address your questions or concerns.

Statistics updated as of January 1, 2020