The content is mostly for patients. You can see how and why are used dental implants. The pictures below showed situation from left: 1.lost teeth, 2. inserted implant, 3. new teeth.
For more information see pictures in the chapter PRACTICE.
The implant is in fact a solid or hollow metallic cylinder 10 - 14 mm long. It is made of pure metal - titanium or nanostructured titanium and it is usually equipped with a thread, similarly as a screw-bolt. After thorough examination of the patient this implant is surgically implemented into the jawbone. This operation lasts approximately 15 - 20 minutes and after it you can normally continue..
After perfect healing of the implant in the jawbone it is then equipped with so called super-structure, onto which an substitute of a tooth crown is modelled. These dentures can be used as well as natural teeth subject to observation of simple hygienic rules. The only difference is that the dentures will never cause you a toothache.
Selection of a patient for this type of operation is made very cautiously. In spite of that, according to long-term international statistics, sometimes the implant is not accepted by the jawbone (approx. in 6% of cases). Perfect behaviour of an implant in the mouth is in great extent positively influenced by the patient’s care of oral hygiene. Even in case of possible release of an..
Although implementation of an implant is economically more expensive, this is outweighed by the fact that in case of loss of just one tooth it is not necessary to grind the two adjoining teeth for a bridge. In such a case an investment into dental implant is very expedient. Timplant implants can be even several times cheaper than comparable types of implants from other countries. They are subject..