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Dental implants feel just like your natural teethThe Endopore Implant |
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The Endopore® dental implant incorporates a unique, truncated cone-shaped design that uses a multilayered porous surface geometry over most of its length to achieve integration by three-dimensional bone ingrowth.
Developed in response to the need for a simpler, less invasive and biologically more compliant system, the Endopore® implant employs an approach that has been used extensively for orthopedic joint replacement fixation since the mid-1980s.
Compared to traditional threaded implants, Endopore's® surgical advantages include:
- a secure, three-dimensional interlocking interface with bone,
- predictable and minimal crestal bone remodelling,
- greater surgical options with shorter implant lengths,
- an uncomplicated four-step placement technique,
- shorter initial healing times, and
- minimal instrumentation and inventory.
Endopore's® high rates of success may be explained by the fact that the Endopore® implant is engaged in the alveolar crest by cortical bone ingrowth into the implant's interconnecting pores. When the implant is placed into function, occlusal loads transferred to the crest stimulate further cortical bone development in accordance with Wolff's law. In contrast, a screw-type implant is stabilized only by the alveolar crest's superior and inferior bone cortices and, over most of its length, weak cancellous bone. With threaded implants, the fixation which occurs at the bone-implant interface can allow for rotational movement of the implant.
Because the porous design greatly increases the surface area at the interface between bone and implant, shorter implants can be used. This, in turn, means that Endopore® implants can be used in applications for which much longer, threaded implants would be unsuitable. With Endopore® , it is often possible to avoid sinus lifts or other augmentation procedures in the maxilla and mandible, allowing for less patient morbidity and for an implant reconstruction that can be less traumatic and more affordable for the patient. Clinical, radiographic and histological examinations have demonstrated repeatedly that, even with shorter implants, shorter initial healing periods and simpler surgical techniques than are customary with other implant designs, the Endopore® implant offers superior fixation performance compared to traditional threaded implants. Most importantly, these results have been demonstrated to be consistent in a clinical setting, where success rates exceed 96%.
