Does review found failure rates lower for delayed loaded submerged dental implants?
The difference between immediately loading and delayed loading of an implant statistically affected the implant failure rate. No statistically significant effects on the occurrence of post-operative infection were observed between the two techniques. Results should be interpreted with caution due to lack of control of confounding factors, the retrospective design of some studies included and the small cohort sizes within the studies.
In this cohort of children, there are associations between carrying G at -2518 of the MCP-1 gene regulatory region and the presence of asthma as well as between asthma severity and homozygosity for the G allele. In asthmatic children, the MCP-1 -2518G polymorphism correlated with increased eosinophil levels. This variant of MCP-1 might belong to the predictor gene set for asthma.