Abstract:
The relevance and importance of the addressed issue. Recently, the indications for
the use of dental implants have been expanded, and the proportion of implant-supported
prostheses in the prosthetic rehabilitation of patients has increased considerably. Although
dental services, including dental implantology, have evolved rapidly in recent decades,
remarkable successes have been achieved in the application of innovative surgical techniques
and procedures [35] for the rehabilitation of patients with various edentulous conditions,
including those with disabilities [53], there are still many controversial and debatable aspects
that require further research. Disputes concern the application of minimally invasive
procedures in oral implantology [8, 16, 28, 36] and the methods and conditions for installing
dental implants in patients with severe atrophies in the lateral areas of the superior jaw [108].
Thus, certain anatomic-physiological conditions may eventually influence the performance of
surgical interventions and, therefore, compromise the tissue integration of dental implants. [...]
