Dental Implants

Placement of 9 i-system dental implants. Periodontitis, chronic periodontitis on the upper jaw. Tooth extraction with simultaneous implantation and prosthetics with zirconium oxide crowns. Treatment duration — approximately 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.

Installation of 10 i-system implants with total prosthetics using zirconium dioxide crowns. A 48-year-old female patient with toxic hypertrophic gingivitis and edentulism in the lateral areas of both jaws. Laser gingivotomy, implantation, and prosthetics. Treatment duration — 3 months.

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.

A sinus lift is an upper jaw surgery aimed at increasing the bone volume when it is not high enough for placing an ordinary screw-type implant with a length of 8 to 12 mm.