Dental Traumatology
Dental Traumatology
2003
Blackwell Publishing
by Martin Trope
Abstract
Flanagan, D. External and occlusal trauma to dental implants and a case report. Dent Traumatol 2003; 19: 160ǃÏ164. ¨© Blackwell Munksgaard, 2003.
Abstract ǃÏ
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.
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