One Third of Patients before Endoprosthesis Implantation Show an Oral Focus as Potential Source of Infectious Complication-The Value of Pre-Operative Dental Risk Stratification in a German Cohort.

German patients before EP have a high periodontal treatment need and show frequently (34%) a potential oral focus of infection, underlining the necessity of including dental examination and risk stratification as part of the pre-operative assessment prior to EP implantation. Therefore, an approach as applied in this study appears reasonable for those individuals.