Dental Implants

Today the most used implants worldwide are made of titanium.
Titanium is a bio-inert metal that in contact with the bone does not give any “rejection” reaction because it does not have any proteins and does not trigger any immune reaction. Furthermore, titanium does not even cause reactions from foreign bodies because it is able to establish a direct connection with the bone tissue, the so-called “osseointegration”

Although titanium is an exceptional material, it happens that, for reasons that are still not fully known today, in a percentage of less than 5% the implants undergo a failure or a bad (or absent) trend in the integration process of the artificial structure. in organic bone tissues.

Often, however, after the removal of an implant in the same site it is possible to insert a new one.

The bone graft commonly referred to by patients as “bone transplant” is an operation carried out to increase the amount of bone present at the level of one or more locations of the dental arches and is usually carried out in order to insert one or more titanium implants that will then support the artificial teeth.

The implant “, on the other hand, is the artificial root that is used to support the artificial crowns.