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Topic: Implant Dentistry

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Dental Implants Placed Immediately Are Successful

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CHICAGO, Illinois – If you lose one tooth or many teeth due to an accident or trauma, you know that you've also lost the ability to smile and eat with ease. Replacing the teeth with dentures or partial teeth may not give you the same confidence that the real teeth did. A dental implant, on the other hand, does look and feel like a real tooth. A dental implant is an artificial tooth root that is placed into the jaw, and holds the replacement tooth, teeth or bridge.

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Posted by AAP on Friday, February 28, 2003

ADA Survey Reveals Increase in Dental Implants Over Five-Year Period

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CHICAGO, Illinois – Although people are losing fewer teeth as they age, a recently released American Dental Association (ADA) survey reveals that when those teeth are replaced, more Americans are choosing dental implants as a replacement option than they did in the past.

According to the survey, the average number of surgically placed dental implants by dentists, who perform the procedure, increased 49 percent to 56.2 implants placed annually per dentist in 1999, compared with an average of 37.7 in 1995. The random-sample survey included responses from nearly 3,000 dentists. The respondents were ADA members and non-members.

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Posted by ADA on Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Dental Implants Highly Successful

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OTTAWA, Ontario – 92% of dental implants are successful, even for those with less-than-perfect health, an evolving team of researchers at the University of Toronto, led by Dr. George Zarb, has concluded. The team has been studying dental implants for more than two decades and, in a series of articles published today in the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association (JCDA), reports that the vast majority of dental implants used to replace missing natural teeth showed good results in the long term despite the common illnesses associated with aging.

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Posted by Editor on Friday, February 22, 2002

Dental Implant Advances Cut The Wait For Replacement Teeth

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ROSEMONT, Illinois – For many patients, new materials and techniques make it possible to install an implant support in the jaw and cap it with a permanent replacement tooth in just a few weeks. Many leave the office with a usable tooth the same day an implant is placed. Previously, patients had to wait between four and six months for bone to grow around the implant before it could accept the load of a replacement tooth.

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Posted by AAOMS on Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Sulzer Dental Announces FDA Clearance to Market Immediate Load Indication for AdVent™ and SwissPlus™ Single-Stage Dental Implants

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CARLSBAD, California – Sulzer Dental, The Practice Building Company™, has received clearance from the FDA to market its AdVent and SwissPlus dental implants for immediate loading. These implants are now indicated for immediate loading in the edentulous mandible when at least four implants are placed and rigidly splinted with a bar.
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Posted by Calcitek on Friday, July 13, 2001

Sulzer Dental Receives FDA Clearance to Market Non-Functional Immediate Restoration Technique

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CARLSBAD, California – Sulzer Dental, The Practice Building Company™, has received clearance from the FDA to market a non-functional immediate restoration technique for single-tooth replacement using the company's Spline™ Twist™ dental implants. The technique involves placing a dental implant into a tooth extraction site and immediately attaching an esthetic temporary restoration. This method allows the patient who comes in with a failing tooth to go home with an implant and a tooth.

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Posted by Calcitek on Friday, July 13, 2001

Spousal Abuse Victim To Receive New Smile Through National Program

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CARLSBAD, California – Sulzer Dental, a leading manufacturer of dental implants, is donating implant products to the "Give Back A Smile"™ program sponsored by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) .
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Posted by Calcitek on Friday, November 03, 2000

University of Toronto Professor Receives IADR Research Award

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CARLSBAD, California – The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Research Group (OMFSRG), a component of the International Association for Dental Research/American Association for Dental Research (IADR/AADR), announced the winners of its research awards for 2000. The research awards recognize outstanding research contributions and promote excellence in oral and maxillofacial surgery-related research.

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Posted by Calcitek on Friday, June 16, 2000

Dental Implants Now Filling the Gap

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – By the age of 26, the average British Columbian is missing at least one tooth. At one time, the only solutions to replace missing teeth were dentures and fixed bridges. Today, however, dental implants are becoming a popular choice for replacing one or more teeth, according to the Association of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia.
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Posted by BCDA on Saturday, April 15, 2000

Sulzer Calcitek Announces the Limited Market Evaluation of the Spline™ CSTi Dental Implant

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CARLSBAD, California – Sulzer Calcitek Inc., the dental implant company of Sulzer Medica, has begun a limited market evaluation of its Spline CSTi dental implant, an innovative new dental implant design. The Spline CSTi implant design is a result of the combined efforts of Sulzer Calcitek and Sulzer Orthopedics Inc., the Austin, Texas-based reconstructive orthopedic business of Sulzer Medica.

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Posted by Calcitek on Tuesday, October 28, 1997

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