{"title":"A novel implant designed to improve mechanical bone adaptation","authors":"A. Ben-Yehouda","doi":"10.4103/JDI.JDI_9_18","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Research shows an exaggerated bone loss adjacent to installed implants during the healing period. This phenomenon may continue later along the years in a slower rate. Sometimes, there is even an acceleration of the phenomenon during the years. The presented implant was designed to restore short-term bone loss caused during the healing phase and to slow and even prevent long-term bone loss. The result is achieved by emitting at the bone, mainly, compressive stress vectors that are essential for improved mechanical bone adaptation, including organization of bone into load-bearing type and modeling of the bone by enlarging its volume. This case report shows how a nonfunctional bone architecture turns into a load-bearing type and how initial bone loss may be restored after implant loading.","PeriodicalId":212982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dental Implants","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Dental Implants","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/JDI.JDI_9_18","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Research shows an exaggerated bone loss adjacent to installed implants during the healing period. This phenomenon may continue later along the years in a slower rate. Sometimes, there is even an acceleration of the phenomenon during the years. The presented implant was designed to restore short-term bone loss caused during the healing phase and to slow and even prevent long-term bone loss. The result is achieved by emitting at the bone, mainly, compressive stress vectors that are essential for improved mechanical bone adaptation, including organization of bone into load-bearing type and modeling of the bone by enlarging its volume. This case report shows how a nonfunctional bone architecture turns into a load-bearing type and how initial bone loss may be restored after implant loading.