is attached to the implant or an abutment is placed which will hold a dental prosthetic or crown. Success or failure of implants depends primarily on...

Implant failure refers to the failure of any medical implant to meet the claims of its manufacturer or the health care provider involved in its installation...

Implantation, also known as nidation, is the stage in the mammalian embryonic development in which the blastocyst hatches, attaches, adheres, and invades...

An implant is a medical device manufactured to replace a missing biological structure, support a damaged biological structure, or enhance an existing...

Repeated implantation failure (RIF) is the repeated failure of the embryo to implant onto the side of the uterus wall following IVF treatment. Implantation happens...

mechanical survival, infection has emerged as the leading cause of implant failure. Although relatively infrequent (varying from .06% to 8.9%) infection...

A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted neuroprosthesis that provides a person who has moderate-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss with sound...

surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant, that is, a hip prosthesis. Hip replacement surgery can be performed as...

augmentation mammoplasty is a cosmetic surgery technique using breast-implants and fat-graft mammoplasty techniques to increase the size, change the shape...

A contraceptive implant is an implantable medical device used for the purpose of birth control. The implant may depend on the timed release of hormones...