[Changes in the indications for oral surgical implants based on statistical analysis].

Journals, books and lectures on oral implantology are concerned less and less with the various fields of indication and their changes. The reason for this is in part that from a surgical point of view we consider the lack of contraindication as the indication of dental implant placement, while from a prosthetic point of view implant supported prosthetic work can be done in any prosthetic situation. Despite of this it is an interesting question, how the ratios of the various fields of indication have changed in view of the age groups and genders in Hungary in the past twenty years. In the present study a part of the patients reporting to the outpatient clinic of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Dentistry of Semmelweis University for dental implant placement in the past 22 years were analyzed using statistical methods. Various age groups, genders and types of implants were compared in view of the indication of placement. The results were compared to data published in international literature.