More and more techniques to regenerate bone and put dental implants

THE AMOUNT OF THE JAW BONE OF WASTE IF NO teeth BUT NO LONGER AN OBSTACLE FOR DENTAL IMPLANTS, experts


New techniques of bone reconstruction and computer-guided surgery allows almost all patients can benefit from dental implant treatment, "says Nestor Montesdeoca Garcia, director of Oral and Maxillofacial CUN and chairman of the organizing committee of the 13th Congress Oral Surgery and Implantology of the Spanish Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (SECOM) held in Pamplona.
What worries experts?

Before we were concerned that the implants will integrate into the bone. With reliability of the current reconstruction techniques premium aesthetics, ie that do not distinguish between an implant crown and natural tooth.

What are the major developments in dental implants?

They are related to imaging and the new technologies for rapid prototyping and perform implant surgery and computer guided. In your computer for a three dimensional image of the oral cavity and the patient's face to plan surgery and know exactly where you will place the implants. This information is transmitted via a stereolithographic splint that, placed in the patient's mouth, provides a minimally invasive surgical procedure with the advantage of greater speed, accuracy, safety and patient comfort, incorporated prior to their normal lives.

What progress has been made in the regeneration of bone?

The amount of bone in the jaw is lost as eroding teeth, especially if they are lost at an early age. For an implant to be integrated is required to be surrounded by sufficient amount and quality of bone. Currently there are different techniques to regenerate the lost bone and to reconstruct the denture.

So anyone, but it has lost bone, is a candidate for getting implants?

The contraindication for implant surgery would be medical or psychological than physical, because an increasing number of techniques available for bone regeneration. The bone may be obtained from elsewhere in the body (hip, jaw, etc.). To be integrated with the native and generate a sufficient amount to anchor the implant. Also used local growth factors that get the own bone to grow into the appropriate area and has already started on the clinical use of stem cells to promote the regeneration.