The wrong design and unbiological surface characteristics of conventional 2 stage implants are responsible for the persistent infection developing after rough implant surfaces of large diameter-implants are exposed to a bacterial attack in the oral cavity.

Whenever teeth have extracted both nutrition and functional stimulation of the bone surrounding the teeth are lost. This inevitably leads to bone loss /atrophy.

For a long time, the protagonists in conventional dental implantology made the public believe that the implants (i.e. conventional 2 stage implants) will maintain the bone and prevent atrophy. We know today that this claim is not true. Bone remodels and atrophies even around well integrated dental implants.

The opposite is actually true: we know very well from orthopedic surgery that stiff implants provide a stress shielding effect and massive bone loss after implant placement is unavoidable as a result. This is why trauma implants are removed after the bone’s healing and whenever possible. Just look at the elementary truths science has to offer! They also apply for dentistry.

Unfortunately, most dentists in many countries use such 2 stage implant designs.

Although we know today that up to 100% of these implants will be affected by peri-implantitis sooner or later, 2 stage implants are frequently used and considered «state of the art».

Albert Einstein said: Solving the problem with means which have created it is never a successful attempt. The result will be the same.
This simple truth also applies here.

But as usual, the solution to the problem is decidedly simple. To avoid additional bone loss and infections we can:

• • use single piece implants which tend to create less bone loss

• • use implants with a thin and polished mucosal penetration diameter

• use completely polished implants, which will under no circumstances ever allow peri-implantitis to occur.