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Extraction of an atypically positioned wisdom tooth. The tooth was inverted with the root pointing downward and lying at an angle beneath adjacent teeth roots. Recovery — 7 days.

Removal of an atypically positioned 8th tooth (wisdom tooth). The tooth was firmly embedded in the bone and was pressing on the adjacent tooth. Surgery using a piezotome. Recovery — 7 days.

All-on-4 dental implantation. Critical atrophy of the alveolar ridge of the lower jaw, complete edentulism. Placement of 4 i-system implants with inferior alveolar nerve distalization. Treatment duration — 3 months.

Prosthetics on 6 i-system implants without bone grafting. Partial edentulism, distal edentulous spans, upper jaw atrophy. Placement of 6 short plateau system implants with subsequent prosthetics. Treatment duration — 3 months.

Short dental implants were designed so that in cases of bone volume deficiency (height and/or width) of the jaw, the implant would not penetrate anatomical structures such as the maxillary sinus and the mandibular nerve canal, while ensuring a long-term stable treatment result.

Probably every adult has heard of such a disease as maxillary sinusitis. Many people have not only heard about it but also experienced unpleasant feelings associated with the inflammation of maxillary sinuses or sinuses of the upper jaw. But not everyone knows that maxillary sinuses may be of odontogenic origin, and this is what we will talk about in this article.

Quality dental implant surgery is a properly performed surgical procedure that includes planning for future prosthetics. When a person visits a dental clinic to get a dental implant, the surgeon does not just place implants – he builds a foundation for future prosthetics. The main goal is to get teeth, not just implants.

To correctly answer the question “why a dental implant fails,” you need to understand why healing happens and what healing is. First of all, from a biological point of view, the implant is not rejected. To place an implant, you need to create a hole in the jaw bone where a missing tooth was located and then insert the implant in that hole. Natural healing of the bone around the inserted implant equals implant integration. In case the bone heals with complications, the dental implant surgery cannot be considered successful!

The history of dental implants is quite long. But we will talk about modern systems. Everything started 45 years ago, when Swedish orthopedic traumatologist Per-Ingvar Branemark noticed dense healing of bone tissue around metal screw elements he used to fix limb fractures. For that reason, it was sometimes extremely difficult to extract such constructions. He called this phenomenon osseointegration. Upon studying the biological processes leading to this result, Per-Ingvar Branemark suggested restoring missing tooth roots with similar metal elements, which later became known as dental implants.