Dental Implants
Description of Dental Implants:
A dental implant is an artificial tooth root replacement and is used in
prosthetic dentistry to support restorations that resemble a tooth or group of
teeth. There are several types of dental implants. The major classifications are
divided into osseointegrated implant and the fibrointegrated implant. Earlier
implants, such as the subperiosteal implant and the blade implant were usually
fibrointegrated. The most widely accepted and successful implant today is the
osseointegrated implant, based on the discovery by Swedish Professor Per-Ingvar
Brånemark that titanium can be successfully fused into bone when osteoblasts
grow on and into the rough surface of the implanted titanium. This forms a
structural and functional connection between the living bone and the implant. A
variation on the implant procedure is the implant-supported bridge, or implant-supported
denture.
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