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Dental implantology is a surgical speciality dedicated to the oral cavity. It consists of inserting artificial roots called dental implants to replace absent or lost teeth. It is performed in our operating block in a “surgical” area under local anaesthetic.
All you need to know
Implants replace natural teeth, which have been lost following an accident or gum disease (sometimes called periodontal disease) or have required extraction as a result of significant tooth decay. Implants are a natural alternative to bridges, as they can be placed without touching the healthy teeth either side of the damaged or missing tooth.
This solution can change the lives of people missing some or all of their teeth. This is because having a prosthetic implant is much for comfortable and discreet that having removable prosthetics, which can move around, cause gum damage and greatly disrupt everyday life.
Implants are artificial roots, which are placed in the bone to replace one or more natural teeth. They are made from high-quality material, titanium, which is able to bond to living tissue on a long-term basis (it is said to be biocompatible). Implants are generally screw- or cylinder-shaped. The future prosthetic is attached to the emerging portion.
In the 1950s, Swedish surgeon, Professor Per-Ingvar Bränemark, discovered that titanium screws could bond directly to living tissue, enabling the long-term replacement of a tooth on a solid artificial root. This is sometimes called osseointegration. In 1965, the first implants were placed in the mouth of a Swedish man. He still has them today. Since the 1980s, the technique has spread throughout the world and has proven its worth in hundreds of thousands of patients. Today, implantology is enhanced with other therapeutic approaches: filling materials, bone grafts, implants with specific shapes other than a screw or cylinder.
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