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External and occlusal trauma to dental implants and a case report
Author(s) -
Flanagan Dennis
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
dental traumatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.82
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1600-9657
pISSN - 1600-4469
DOI - 10.1034/j.1600-9657.2003.00144.x
Subject(s) - implant , crown (dentistry) , dentistry , dental implant , orthodontics , materials science , medicine , surgery
– Dental implants subjected to traumatic forces can survive. Cortical bone seems to provide a protective energy‐absorbing mechanism in the collagen polymer that helps to prevent microcracking and fracture of bone. The collagen polymer has cross‐linking bonds that break and absorb the energy of a traumatic impact so as not to cause damage to the main polymer chain. A case reported demonstrates that a traumatic force damaged the implant prosthetic crown, but not the bone encasing the implant or the integration of the implant.