Implant types
Bone level, tissue level, short, narrow, one-piece, ceramic, zygomatic and mini implants — what distinguishes each category.
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- Bone-level implant An implant designed so that its platform, and therefore the implant–abutment interface, sits at or close to the crestal bone, with the transmucosal portion formed by a separate abutment.
- Ceramic (zirconia) implants Implants made from zirconium dioxide ceramic rather than titanium, available mainly as one-piece designs and, more recently, as two-piece systems.
- Narrow-diameter implants Implants with a reduced intraosseous diameter, used where ridge width or the mesiodistal space between teeth will not accept a standard-diameter implant.
- Pterygoid implants Implants placed from the maxillary tuberosity backwards into the pterygoid region, engaging dense posterior cortical bone so that the back of the upper jaw can be restored without sinus grafting.
- Short implants A category of implant defined by reduced intrabony length, used where vertical bone height is limited; the 11th European Consensus Conference defines it as a designed intrabony length of 8 mm or less with a diameter of 3.75 mm or more.
- Subperiosteal implants A custom framework that rests on the jaw bone beneath the periosteum rather than being inserted into it, carrying posts that emerge through the gum to support a prosthesis.
- Tissue-level implant An implant with an integral polished transmucosal collar, so that the implant–abutment interface sits above the crestal bone at the level of the soft tissue.
- Zygomatic implants Long implants that take their main anchorage from the zygomatic (cheek) bone rather than the alveolar ridge, used to restore a severely resorbed upper jaw without first grafting bone.
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