Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Dental Implants


By Ian Kleine

Most often, we would immediately encounter the term "dental implant" when looking over the various options in medical treatment that pertains to the recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction of teeth. One should immediately dispel the attitude of a scary, long operation with drills and metal braces if one is to understand the subtlety of dental implantation.

Dental implants are what you call the artificial root and tooth fashioned from sturdy, non-toxic metals (like Titanium) and is used for prosthetic and regenerative dentistry. The rehabilitative properties of dental implants are invaluable, and the amount of jaws and mandibles saved through this operation is immense. There are a lot of types and methods that exist for this operation, but the most common of them all are osseointegration and fibrintegration implants.

Osseointegration means the formation of a bond between bone mass and metal. The compound word "osseointegrate" comes from osseo, which means bone, and integrate, which means to join, fuse or combine finely. It is this fusion within the bone that the metal performs its full function of replacing the teeth. Dental implants are said to be one of the pinnacles of medical and joint bone replacement technology, having a high rate of both success chance and satisfaction within the patient.

The small implant is shaped into a tooth and its root with the use of different graded titanium so that it would fit snugly into the hole left behind by the former tooth. The surface of the metal implant is smoothed or roughened depending on the situation of the patient and prescription of the doctor. Surgery would depend on the type of implant, and the type of implant usually dictates the price and cost as well.

Costs for the operation are quite large, if you take it in the United States or in Canada. In these areas, operations can go for as high as four thousand dollars with the lowest of the rates being for two thousand dollars only, and that is with the same day implants on the tooth. That same operation, if done in Costa Rica would only cost you a low price of six hundred seventy five dollars. And note that with a four hundred dollar plane ticket, and even a thousand dollar pocket money (larger than your actual surgery) you still save as much fifty percent of your actual costs!

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