The US is home to a large and growing number of dental implant companies, whose implant manufacturing processes are performed in accordance with strict Food and Drug Administration policies. FDA monitors the manufacture of dental implants as closely as it does that of medical implants, with strict attention to sanitation and quality control.
What Dental Implant Companies Do
Dental implant companies produce all the components used in dental implant surgery; a dental implant is either screwed directly into a patients jawbone, or built as a custom-fitted plate to be instated between the jawbone and gum.
The hardware of the dental implant is made of titanium, which is a metal highly compatible with the bodys own systems and almost never causes and adverse reaction in the surrounding tissues. Titanium has been used for nearly forty years in hip transplantation.
The implants visible tooth structure is of ceramic. How their titanium hardware and ceramic teeth are built and pieced together is the only thing differentiating the products of different dental implant companies, and different dentists may have preferences for different brands of...