RESUMEN
Objetivo: Avaliou-se em estudos longitudinais os critérios de sucesso em endodontia e implantodontia. Material e métodos: Fontes de catalogação bibliográfca identifcadas eletronicamente pela MEDLINE e Cochrane Collaboration foram utilizadas. A estratégia de busca na base de dados MEDLINE foi realizada pelo portal PubMed(htp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed), de 1966 até 19 de janeiro de 2009, a partir de várias combinações de palavras-chave: success criteria and dental implants OR failure criteria and dental implants OR success criteria and osseointegration OR failure criteria and osseointegration OR success criteria and endodontic treatment OR failure criteria and endodontic treatment OR success criteria and root canal treatment OR failure criteria and root canal treatment OR success criteria and endodontic therapy OR failure criteria and endodontic therapy OR success criteria and endodontics OR failure criteria and endodontics. Resultados: A busca apresentou 684 artigos, sendo que destes, 263 não vinculavam-se com o objetivo, 206 eram revisões de literatura, 378 relacionavam-se com estudos em humanos, 14 estudos em animais, e 112 incluíram estudos in vitro. Dos 378 estudos em humanos, 15 satisfizeram os critérios de inclusão, sendo que todos estavam relacionados ao sucesso e/ou sobrevivência de implantes, não havendo trabalho relacionado ao sucesso do tratamento endodôntico não-cirúrgico. Foi analisado o sucesso de 1601 implantes com índice de sucesso médio de 90,84%; a sobrevivência média de 5663 implantes foi de 94,7%. Conclusão: Os estudos adotaram critérios de sucesso distintos para ambas as áreas, o que implica na necessidade do estabelecimento de um modelo de referência contemporâneo e de consenso, com vistas a facilitar os futuros estudos.
Objective: The criteria of success in endodontics and implant dentistry were evaluated in longitudinal studies. Material and methods: Bibliographic catalogue sources, electronically identifed as MEDLINE (htp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed), from 1966 until January 19th, 2009, and Cochrane Library were used. On the searching strategy, the following combination of keywords were used: success criteria and dental implants OR failure criteria and dental implants OR success criteria and osseointegration OR failure criteria and osseointegration OR success criteria and endodontic treatment OR failure criteria and endodontic treatment OR success criteria and root canal treatment OR failure criteria and root canal treatment OR success criteria and endodontic therapy OR failure criteria and endodontic therapy OR success criteria and endodontics OR failure criteria and endodontics. Results: The search presented 684 related articles, 263 articles that had no relation with the objective of this study, 206 were literature reviews, 378 were related with in vivo studies on humans, 14 studies on animals, and 112 were in vitro studies. From the 378 studies on humans, 15 satisfed the inclusion criteria, and all these were related to the success and/or survival of dental implants, with no work related to the success of non-surgical root canal treatment. It was analyzed the success of 1601 implants with average success rate of 90.84%; the average survival of 5663 implants was 94.7%. Conclusion: It was observed that the investigations used distinct success criteria for the root canal treatments and the dental implants, what implicates the need of adoption of a consensus and actual model, to facilitate the future studies.