Vitamin D acts as a hormone and is vital for the health of the brain, for the cardiovascular and respiratory tract, the skin, and the immune and endocrine systems. It is well known that vitamin D deficiency can impair the correct immune response to oral microbial infections, increasing the risk of periodontitis. Moreover, vitamin D plays an important role in the metabolism of bone. In the bone, vitamin D stimulates the activity of osteoclasts and increases the production of extracellular matrix proteins by osteoblasts.
Today, vitamin D is considered deficient when serum 25(OH) levels are 30 ng/mL . Vitamin D deficiency, which can result from inadequate dietary intake together with insufficient exposure to sunlight, is today a worldwide public health concern and suspected to be aggravated more in the current worldwide situation of the pandemic and lockdowns.
Dear Bassem, the following recent review may help you:
Hakim LK, Ghasemi T, Bashar S, Dortaj D. The possible role of vitamin D deficiency in early implant failure. BioMed Research International 2021;6639523. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6639523
Best wishes from Germany, Martin
Dear Bassem Emad
The association between VitD deficiency and dental implant failure has been investigated.
These articles are for your references
Article Is Low Serum Vitamin D Associated with Early Dental Implant ...
Article Vitamin D deficiency in early implant failure: two case reports
Thank you all, for the recommendations, though through critical appraisal and research Methodology used in those limited researches and in my own point of view there should be further multicentre study in more case reports and more data collection to scientifically prove the correlation.
There is an open invitation for everyone to join the ongoing research.
In my practice we do vitamin D , Ca++ tests, recommend and follow-up the treatment, before implant placement.
while collecting data from affiliated facilities, recommending vitamin D, Ca++ Screening and following up the cases of EDIF and implanting after treatment of the insufficiency.
best regards.
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