Full-mouth implant data, charted from published research
Four pages of numbers, each chart built only from figures in peer-reviewed papers, with the table underneath and the limits spelled out.
Medically reviewed by Dt. Hüseyin Yavuz Özbek, implant surgeon · Updated October 2026Published studies show long-term survival for implants under full-arch bridges mostly between about 91% and 99%, depending on the jaw, the follow-up and how the study counted drop-outs. Repairs are common: in one large review only two in three patients had no complication of any kind after five years. Bone shrinks fastest in the months after extraction, and smoking, grinding and a history of gum disease raise the odds of problems.
The data pages
Bone-loss stages
Cawood and Howell classes and how fast the ridge shrinks after extraction.
Open →Complication rates
Chipping, loose screws, fractures, mucositis and peri-implantitis, in numbers.
Open →Risk factors
Smoking, diabetes, grinding, gum disease and age, measured.
Open →Survival rates
Implant and bridge survival at 5 to 20 years, and why figures differ.
Open →How we use numbers
Every figure on these pages is copied from the abstract of a peer-reviewed paper listed in our evidence library, and every chart has the source next to each bar. We follow four rules.
- We say what is being measured. Implant survival, implant success, bridge survival and complication rates are different things. Each chart says which one it shows.
- We do not average across studies ourselves. If a chart puts results from different papers side by side, the caption says that the bars are not directly comparable.
- We show uncertainty. Where a paper reports a 95% confidence interval, the chart shows it as a whisker.
- We keep our own clinic out of the charts. Precious Dental publishes this site and is our top pick, but its name does not appear in any data series. Our prices and process are on separate pages such as prices and why Precious Dental.
“96% survival” sounds like a promise. It is a group average from people treated in a particular way, often by specialist researchers. Your own outcome depends on your bone, your health, how you clean and whether you keep up maintenance visits. Our candidate checker walks through the factors that matter most.
Common questions
Can I download the data?
Every chart has a table of the numbers underneath it (open “Show the numbers as a table”), with a link to the source paper. The pages are published under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, so you may reuse the tables with a link back.
Why don't you combine all studies into one number?
Because they measure different things in different patients. Pooling them ourselves would produce a figure that looks precise but is not. Where proper meta-analyses exist, we show their results instead.
Are these Precious Dental's own results?
No. These are published results from research groups around the world. We do not publish a clinic success rate, because a self-reported figure without an independent method would not be comparable with these studies.
Which number should I quote to my own dentist?
Quote the study, not just the number. Saying “Pjetursson 2012 found two in three patients had no complications at five years” starts a far better conversation than a bare percentage.
Sources
- Pjetursson BE, Thoma D, Jung R, Zwahlen M, Zembic A. A systematic review of the survival and complication rates of implant-supported fixed dental prostheses (FDPs) after a mean observation period of at least 5 years. Clin Oral Implants Res 2012. PMID 23062125
- Howe MS, Keys W, Richards D. Long-term (10-year) dental implant survival: A systematic review and sensitivity meta-analysis. J Dent 2019. PMID 30904559
Checked October 2026. Where we give our own view as a clinic, we say so.
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