16 Aug 2017 --- Patients who develop an inflammatory response in the years after receiving a dental implant, a group that makes up 6 to 15 percent of dental implant patients, will be able to benefit from a chewing gum-based diagnostic test in the future. The test, designed by a pharmaceutical research team at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany, will detect if bacteria are destroying the soft tissue and the bone around the implant in the worst-case scenario.