Inserting Dental Implants

Video Transcript

"The dental implant, the surface is really is not a smooth surface. With our eyes looking at it, it looks very smooth and very clean, but microscopically, it's a very rough surface. And the reason for that is that we want to increase the surface area. And by increasing the surface area, it allows the bone to grow into these undercut or grow into those surface and kind of bond to it. And with today with the surface being chemically treated, or using electricity to roughen it up and you know, just many different method. And doing so the bottom line is creating undercut. It's the undercut that allow the bone to grow into and lock the implant in. Most of the time it is still a mechanical lock. But now days because of the chemically treated surface, you get some chemical bonding and that's why, you know, when the implant is said and done, meaning after the healing, to remove it is quite impossible. The only way you're going to remove it is literally just go in there and just cut everything away, which is really invasive."