Dental information
Minimally invasive dental implants
As the population ages, the demand for dentistry and the demand for dental services is getting higher and higher. In the past, elderly people often replaced lost teeth with removable dentures, but since the advent of dental implant technology, more people choose to repair their lost chewing function in this way. Since dental implants use alveolar bone as the support point of dentures, they are more similar to the design of human teeth than other dentures, and they are certainly more comfortable to use.
With the rapid development of dental implant technology, more people will choose computer-navigated minimally invasive dental implants. First of all, you need to know the surgical principle of dental implants: in the past, doctors generally relied only on two-dimensional X-rays such as Periapical radiograph and Orthopantomogram (OPG). Therefore, most dental implant surgery requires cutting the tooth flesh and exposing the tooth bone to accurately perform dental implant surgery.
However, procedures such as cutting the flesh of the tooth not only increase the swelling and pain after surgery, but also require longer operation time, and stitches are required after surgery. Many patients are deterred from dental implants for fear of the discomfort of surgery. Minimally invasive dental implants have come into being in the hope that dental implants can be implanted in a less invasive way to improve their patients’ feeding ability and aesthetics.
Minimally invasive dental implants eliminate the need to cut the flesh to expose the bone, resulting in shorter operation times, less postoperative discomfort and no need for stitches in wounds.
The computer-navigated, minimally invasive dental implant procedure is to take a CT scan (Cone Beam Computed tomography) for the patient to accurately understand the position and width of the alveolar bone, and then put the precise surgical template into the mouth to accurately perform the operation.
However, not all patients are candidates for minimally invasive dental implants. If the width and height of the tooth bone are insufficient, traditional dental implant surgery may be required, combined with bone augmentation surgery. If you have any questions, please consult a registered dentist.
