Dental Implant Parts

Video Transcript

"But basically when you look at the whole implant prosthesis, when you see the dark area, that's the implant. The dark are, the implant is in bone. It's in solid bone, it's flush with the bone. And then the portion that sticks out from the implant is what we call the post or the abutment. And all that is, is this piece of metal that's in the inside sits onto the implant and is screwed down. And it's locked in with an internal chamber so this post cannot rock around. And then we use a screw to tighten it so it's locked in. Once that's locked in, you can see it's flush with the implant so there's no open space or anything. And then once we have that now that basically is the tooth where we have the titanium metal and the post, which can be stainless steel, titanium or even high noble. And then the crown goes over the whole thing. And the crown again, I think we talked about. The crown has to be either non-metal of which could be porcelain, old porcelain or it has to be high noble with porcelain. Mainly because you don't want any corrosion to occur, you want the crown to be as natural as possible, and the tissue to have the proper metal around it so the tissue won't be irritated. And so that you know, the metal if it's highly polished, the gold can be polished to a really high shine with finesse porcelain which is very, very smooth. The chance for plaque to sticking onto these surfaces is near to none. And the plaque can't stick to it, and then the gum can be very healthy."