Dental Implants

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...

Occlusal considerations for single tooth implant crowns

Occlusal schemes are likely to vary between an implant and natural tooth due to the lack of periodontal ligament. The ‘functional ankylosis’ term was coined to accurately describe the relationship of...