Guided Zygomatic dental implants may make it possible for anyone to get implants
A new “guided zygomatic” implant has recently been introduced that will make dental implants available to many people who were formerly unable to wear them. The process requires no surgery, and can be completed in one or two appointments (rather than the 3+ appointments it presently takes). Plus the implants are a strong as real teeth.
The process uses a specially extended dental implant — up to 55 mm instead ofthe usual 10mm or 15 mm for normal dental implants. And it can be screwed into the cheekbone instead of the jaw bone, which could be a boon for those who don’t have enough jaw bone to sustain regular implants.
Plus, the new implants can be installed without surgery — instead, the patient first undergoes a computer scan that makes it possible to guide the implant into the jaw non-invasively.
Tests of the new implant are presently underway and the new implants should be publically available within the next year.