Your new teeth for many years

The normal functioning of the teeth stimulates the surrounding bone and the latter tends to maintain itself. However, whenever a dental piece is lost the bone begins to atrophy and starts to disappear a little at a time.

One of the characteristics of old age is the loss of bone in the lower third of the face, because many people have lost their teeth and molars with the passage of time.

Environmental electronic microscope photograph (belonging to one of our own studies) where the adhesion of an osteocyte (osseous cell) to the surface of an implant can be seen.

Losing this maxillary or mandibular bone is a serious problem for any type of oral rehabilitation, and the only way to maintain it is to return it to its original function by means of osseointegrated implants.

The replacement of lost teeth and molars with osseointegrated implants permits the fixed and comfortable return of all their functions (mastication, phonation, aesthetics, stabilisation of neighbouring and antagonistic molars, preservation of the bone in the area, etc) and all this without the need to overload neighbouring teeth, as would a removable apparatus or traditional bridge.

When substituting a tooth with an implant, we are restoring not only the external part, but also its root.

Therefore, the more bone left the better the prognosis and that is why it is not advisable to wait long before placing the implants.

With implants just one sole tooth or all the teeth in a mouth can be replaced. Removable prostheses, hooks and artificial palates can all be avoided.

Implantology is one of the areas of odontology that has most evolved over recent years. Better and more evolved materials and techniques permit more comfortable and reliable treatments. Placing implants must always be carried out in the sterile environment of an operating theatre, with high precision motors and drills with internal refrigeration.

In order to maximise the success percentile, the treatment must be extremely atraumatic to the bone, and the materials used must be of optimum quality.