Treatment of the Severely Atrophic Fully Edentulous Maxilla: The Zygoma Implant Option

摘要

People who are missing teeth can be compromised or handicapped in chewing efficiency, speech problems, facial appearance, and self-confidence in social situations. This is not news to the dental profession. However, because dentistry was the first health care profession to benefit from the discovery of osseointegration by Per-Ingvar Branemark when he first placed implants into the mouth in 1965, it has become generally accepted treatment to offer patients who have lost teeth the implant option for their replacement.