Liver transplantation post-transplant infections

Toljanic et al. [32] reported the survival rates of the facial implants in a retrospective study. Implant failure rate in the orbital region was found to be 23% after 5 years and 42% after 10 years. Charpiot et al. [30] found the ossointegra-tion rate of 142 implants used for 51 facial prostheses was 95.7%. Leonard et al. [19] reported that implant failure was observed for 2 of the 3 implants placed to support a nasal epithesis in a patient with hepatitis C virus who also had serious periodontal disease and had experienced a post-infective necrosis of the nose after a liver transplantation. An implant failure was also observed in a diabetic patient with an extensive midfacial defect due to a mycotic infection, but it did not compromise the retention of the prosthesis. 

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