Displacement of a dental implant in the mandible body: an unusual case report.

Purpose: To present a case of a woman referred for the management of displacement of one implant in her right posterior mandible that had occurred three days previously.

Materials And Methods: After implant placement, the practitioner was no longer able to detect the implant and inserted a second one at the same site without taking a control radiograph. At the end of surgery, when a radiograph was finally taken, the first implant appeared displaced into the mandible body.