Failure of prosthetic screws on 971 implants

evaluate the presence of failures in prosthetic screws and whether these failures are related to the type of prosthesis, abutment angulation and presence or not of intermediate. Methods: Two-hundred and sixty-seven patients were evaluated at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, totaling 971 external hexagonal implants in place for at least one year. A Tobit regression model for censored variables was used and the explanatory variables were subjected to percentage analysis. Results: The results demonstrated a relationship between the failure in prosthetic screws and the investigated factors with a significance of F=0.003 and p