Surgical Treatment of Peri-Implantitis: Literature Review

Objective: The objective of this study was to describe in a narrative review, the efficacy and indications of surgical therapy in the treatment of peri-implantitis. Method: A narrative review was conducted through a literature search in the following electronic databases: PubMed, EBSCO, Cochrane, Google Scholar, as well as a manual search of the articles published in the “Journal of Periodontology” for availability in our library, and the literature cited in the selected studies. To develop the theoretical framework was used as support material in the area of periodontics books. Electronic search for the following key words were used: “periimplantitis”, “therapy”, “treatment”, “SURGERY” and “SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE” and the Boolean operators AND and OR. To analyze the risk of bias in clinical trials bias the tone for the Cochrane Collaboration for reviews of interventions used. Results: A total of 6,167 articles were cast, of which 343 were potentially relevant articles. Of these, 256 were dismissed for not meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria; and 65 did not answer the research question. Finally reduced to a total of 22 articles were included in this review. Conclusion: More clinical evidence is needed in the scientific literature to determine the efficacy and indications of surgical treatment for the treatment of peri-implantitis.