The Main Infrastructure for Better Dental Implant Management: A Systematic Review on Dental Implant Registries

Abstract

Background The importance of dental implant registry system has been well documented. However, no systematic review on the dental implant registry system can be found in the literature. Therefore, the aim of this study is to review the dental implant registry system to determine the goals, data elements, reports, data sources, capabilities and institutions that develop dental implant registry system.Methods A systematic study was conducted in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and Embase databases. Also, samples of dental implant registry system were searched in Google and were included into the study. For evaluating the dental implant registry system, all English language studies were examined without time limitation. Non-English studies and papers such as conference abstracts were excluded.Results The primary search identified 16905 articles. After eliminating duplicates, full texts of 53 retrieved articles were reviewed by the researchers and finally, 15 studies were included in this review. In this review, the goals of dental implant registry system were determined to be surveillance, complication management and etc. Also, the data elements of dental implant registry system were include patient information, implant information, etc.Conclusion The results of this study provide dentists and other stakeholders with useful dataset on the development of dental implant registry system. It also provides a framework of the goals, characteristics, data elements and reports, data sources, and capabilities of dental implant registry system. The establishment of dental implant registry system will allow the control of complications of dental implants in the future.Systematic review registration CRD42019126424