Implant Maintenance and Prevention of Complications
Learning Objectives
- Identify factors that increase the risk of peri-implant tissue complications.
- Differentiate implant survival from true clinical success using peri-implant health, tissue stability, maintenance, and patient-centered outcomes.
- Explain how biomaterial behavior, including volume stability, resorption profile, vascular integration, and early wound healing, may influence long-term outcomes.
Speaker
Frank Schwarz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral Surgery, Implantology and Oral Medicine at the Centre for Dentistry and Oral Medicine (Carolinum), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research, Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, and a member of the editorial boards of Periodontology 2000 and Clinical Oral Implants Research.
Professor Schwarz is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Association for Osseointegration (EAO), an Executive Board Member of the Osteology Foundation, and Past President of the German Association of Oral Implantology (DGI).
His distinctions include the André Schroeder Research Prize (2007), the Miller Research Prize (2012), and the Jan Lindhe Award (2017).