Basic Implant Education – Elementary Level

The age of implantology, which is still known as a new science or a relatively new treatment technique in dentistry, is not more than 50 years. Its prevalence in the world is perhaps 30 years and in Iran it is 15 years.

It includes the treatment of patients with missing teeth and teeth that have a prognosis of less than 5 years. In dentistry, previous methods before implementing implantology are called traditional treatment plans or traditional treatments. And implant treatment is called modern or advanced treatment.

First, we will have a review of traditional treatments and their advantages and disadvantages will be examined. And then we will review new treatments with implants and examine their advantages and disadvantages.

Traditional Treatments

In the process of traditional treatment, as far as the tooth in the patient’s mouth is possible, regardless of bone loss around the tooth root or loosening of the teeth due to gum disease, the natural tooth is kept in the patient’s mouth. Accordingly, except for the period of milk teeth, treatments usually begin in our country from the age of ten to twelve with filling and restoration of the lower first molar teeth, and gradually after a few years of restoration, class 1 is converted to 2 and 3, and finally continues with root canal therapy. And after five to ten years, with the fracture of the tooth walls, the work reaches the crown or tooth extraction. According to statistics, in Iran, we are faced with a total of 4 to 6 edentulous patients in the jaws of patients aged thirty to thirty-five.

The story begins with the extraction of teeth and a triple bridge, that is, taking help from adjacent teeth in the form of a bridge, and then the number of extracted teeth is added and the volume and number of bridges are increased. The age of 50 is the age of edentulousness in Iran, which leads to the placement of removable or complete dentures. Their support is in the form of clips of the remaining teeth and the mucosa and bone of the patient’s jaw. Which causes bone loss to a greater or lesser extent and ultimately reduces the height of the lower third of the patient’s jaw and the so-called facial aging begins.