DENTAL SKOOL

Hopefully, all of us, dentists would have heard about different types of connections between dental implants and abutments in our graduate days. I'm quite sure it was confusing and I'm also quite sure that it will still be confusing for many of the students and younger dentists! I'm a graduate from the first decade of the 21st  century and for us, implants were always two-piece, the idea of single piece implants was never there in our minds.  For quite a long time I used to hear only about Nobel Biocare implants and the trilobe connection (frankly, I think it's not even close to pass by the OK standard in today's implant world). Until I graduated and started practicing, I was thinking Nobel Biocare is the only implant available! That's how strong was the monopoly achieved by Nobel Biocare! Sure, they have come up with lots of changes, but it must be accepted that they are no more the only company or the only boss!  While I was training to be

Dental Implants !!   The dental implants are artificial substitutes for the roots of the lost natural teeth , which help to anchor the prostheses (false teeth/replacement teeth). The statement holds good in that the most popular form of dental implants available today are the root-form  implants   (anaform/ anatomical form/ in the form of natural tooth root). These are also technically called as the  endosteal/endosseous  implants ,  as they stay within the bone.   Root form implants are of different types as follows Blade form Cylinder form and Screw form (the most popular and widely used) Other forms of dental implants, of rare usage, historic interest and lesser popularity, include - transosteal and subperiosteal implants. The transosteal implants These implant go through and through the bone. They engage cortical plates on either surface of the bone (the mandible) - the crestal cortical plate and the basal cortical plate. These implants