{"id":715,"date":"2026-05-28T08:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/?post_type=article&p=715"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:09:37","slug":"esthetic-implant-failures-potential-causes-and-techniques-for-implant-removal-2304","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/forum-impl.iti.org\/en\/article\/esthetic-implant-failures-potential-causes-and-techniques-for-implant-removal-2304\/","title":{"rendered":"Esthetic Implant Failures: Potential Causes and Techniques for Implant Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"article-type":[5],"forum-tag":[124,48,121,122,123,126,125],"class_list":["post-715","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article-type-feature-article","forum-tag-adjacent-implants","forum-tag-dental-implants","forum-tag-esthetic-complications","forum-tag-esthetic-failures","forum-tag-implant-malposition","forum-tag-implant-removal","forum-tag-oversized-implants"],"acf":{"feature_topic":1460,"authors":[980,1118],"read_time":"8 min","publication_date":"20151029","doi":"10.3290\/iti.fi.45692","excerpt":"In recent years, a marked increase in esthetic implant complications and failures has been observed. This article focuses primarily on esthetic failures, i.e. severely compromised treatment outcomes, mostly making implant removal unavoidable. The first part enumerates the most frequent causes of such failures, namely implant malposition, adjacent implants and oversized implants. ","references":"

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