Referral Patterns of General Dental Practitioners for Bone Grafting and Implant Placement

Abstract

Dental implant rehabilitation is a well-established procedure often conducted in the general dental practice setting. The outcomes for implant placement are reliable when the recipient site is favorable. Our goal has been to assess the accuracy with which general dental practitioners (GDP's) assess the bone volume available for implant placement and their referral patterns for implant sites, which may require bone grafting.

Fifty-three GDP's were surveyed and asked to assess 5 different scenarios and cone beam scans for difficulty (0 no difficulty - 5 the most difficult), and bone grafting requirements (yes/no and who to perform), prior to implant placement.

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