Dental implants provide advantages over other conventional restorative dental works:

• Unlike conventional bridgework, dental implants can provide tooth replacement without the need to cut down adjacent teeth.
• Dental implants also prevent the loss of bone in the area of the missing tooth. Replacing the tooth with an implant restores function to the bone and prevents the resorption of the bone.
• Dental implants can also be used to anchor full or partial removable dentures. This provides much greater retention and security than traditional techniques.

3D Dental Imaging

3D CT Scans and pre-operative planning software are now also available that provides an increased level of confidence and an extra margin of safety for patients:

• viewing functionalities of axial, sagital and coronal images as well as cross-sections and panoramic images
• 3D visualization and simulattion of implant placement and bone augmentation procedures
• a constant tool for clear communication between all members
• Eliminates Surprises During Surgery by providing accurate and comprehensive information about the patient's anatomy
• enables flapless surgery whereby no incisions are made in the patient’s mouth
• provides comprehensive, non-distorted data describing your patient's bone quantity and quality

Promax Digital Tomography for 3D Implant Planning

The increasing use of osseo-integrated implants has created a wider demand for radiographic techniques in the pre-surgical and post-operative evaluation of the patient. Correct topographical information is required on the prospective site for planning the implant location. BIDC uses Planmeca ProMax digital x-rays that has effective tomography programs which meet these demands. Planmeca Promax combines several imaging modalities into one intelligent X-ray unit.

• Panoramic radiography for general diagnostics of the tooth arch and the jaw.
• Advanced panoramic radiography for specific diagnostics of the tooth arch, the jaw, maxillary sinuses and temporo-mandibular joints.
• Dental tomographic slices for detailed morphologic diagnostics of facial bones.
• Cephalometry for imaging of the skull

Planmeca ProMax offers four tomography systems: linear tomograpphy and true linear tomography for film tomography and digital linear tomography and Transtomography for digital systems.

Planmeca ProMax tomography system produces straight tomographic slices of any part of the maxilla,mandible or temporomandibular joints. The tomograms can be cross-sectional or longitudinal and are adjustable to any specific angle. Adjustable and uniform image thickness of 1, 3, 6, 9, 18, or 36 mm maximizes the diagnostic value and provides excellent details.

Innovative Surface for Faster Osseointegration Process

The new SLActive surfaces enables additional condifidence for one day implants, same day implants, immediate loaded implants as well as full mouth/arch implant cases cutting down the healing treatment requirements from 6-8 weeks to 3-4 weeks.

SLActive Dental Implants by ITI Struamann has a chemically active and hydrophilic surface that significantly promotes the initial healing reaction allowing for a faster osseointegration process and higher implant stability.

• Faster osseointegration
• Enhanced bone formation processes
• Higher implant stability during the early critical weeks of osseointegration (removal torque)
• Substantially increased protein adsorption

Reduction of Treatment Time

Material developments and techniques such as the titanum oxide layer on dental implant surfaces has now allows shorter treatment time. These new surface developments allows:

• Enhanced osseointegration for unmatched stablility
• Immediate Function for patients
• Ideal texture and porosity for bone apposition
• Enhanced environment for bone formation
• Soft Tissue integration for healthy connective/epithelial tissue and a natural looking gingiva
• Its structure most similar to human cancellous bone thus absorbs blood proteins, aids bone growth