What Is A New Material For A Dental Implant?

A typical dental implant procedure is when a person has lost a single tooth and wants to have it replaced.  It is a better procedure than a bridge because a bridge involve drilling and shaving off the teeth of either side of the missing tooth, where a dental implant has very little effect on the teeth on either side of it.  A dental implant will require a crown supported by a dental implant.

In many situations, the tooth has been missing for several years and there is not enough bone to support the implant.  A variety of procedures used to "build" bone so that dental implants can be placed is called "bone augmentation".

A procedure of a dental implant typically involves grafting or adding bone or bonelike materials to the jaw.

The material making the graft can be taken from the patient's chin or from a cadaver to "rebuild" the lost bone so that it can support an implant. This type of procedure is done in the surgeon's office under intravenous (IV) sedation.  Synthetic materials are man-made materials made from chemicals and they also can be used for bone grafting. Newer products, such as bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2), also are available.

BMP-2 occurs naturally in the body and stimulates certain body cells to turn into bone, without grafting.

According to as study by the Department of Periodontics Dental School at the University of Texas Health Science Center,  after 4 weeks, the BMP-2-treated sites had a significantly higher percentage of contact, more new bone area, and higher percentage of defect fill than the sites without BMP-2.  However, the addition of collagen encourages the healing effect to be better after 12 weeks.  Collagen is the most abundant protein in mammals, accounting for around 30% of the protein content of the human body.  It is often considered to be the "glue that holds the body together", according to medicalnewstoday.com.


Since you can't get a dental implant done with the drop of a hat, a temporary material is available to fill the empty spot.


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