Pynadath George

General Dental Surgeon with practice limited to advanced/complex prosthodontic and surgical implantology

email: georgedentsurgeon@hotmail.com

A novel approach for the placement of zygomatic implants: the zygomatic bone zone index

Brånemark first wrote about zygomatic implants in 1998 after using them for 10 years.4 This implant is a longer titanium rod that is apically installed into the zygomatic bone, but emanates from the...

Dental implants: what challenges and opportunities are there on our horizon?

In the 1950s, Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark, an orthopaedic surgeon from Sweden, was studying bone healing and regeneration using titanium. In one of his experiments, he inserted a titanium chamber...