IMPLANT INFORMATION: Oral Soft Tissue
| What … for? (Indications) Membranes help to reconstruct tissue voids and to support bone reconstruction techniques in the oral cavity. |
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| Numbers n/a | |||||||
| Times Healing times have great variations, dependent on the size of the defect and the used technique. The effect may not be stable in the long run. |
Most membranes are semipermeable – in different grades. To make it simple in the picture: The arrows show the ideal mechanism to let the good things through and keep the bad ones away. |
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| Contraindications | behavioral | Systemic bone diseases, poor oral hygiene, smoking, parafunction, no aftercare possible. | |||||
| medical | Diabetes mellitus, infectious diseases, certain systemic/metabolism diseases, low ability for surgery. | ||||||
| pharmaceutical | Biphosphonates, chemotherapy, drugs, alcohol, corticosteroids, immune suppression. | ||||||
| Risks | during surgery | Tissue injury, swallowing/inhaling parts, injury or structures/nerves, ceasing of the surgery. | |||||
| short term: | Inflammation, repulsion, foreign body reactions, allergic reactions | ||||||
| long term: | Most membranes are biodegradable and dissolve, some have to be removed. Foreign body reactions, nodularity, | ||||||
| Failures | Risks depend from several preconditions like bone volume, material and reasons in connection with the above contraindications. | ||||||
| Materials available | autologous | Cultured autologous fibroblasts | |||||
| allogeneic (homologous) | Collagen fibrils (human) | ||||||
| Homologous collagen dispersion | |||||||
| Acellular dermal graft | |||||||
| xenogenous | Collagen fibrils (bovine) | ||||||
| Collagen fibrils (porcine) | |||||||
| alloplastic, synthetic | Poly-L-lactid acid | ||||||
| Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (e-PFTE) | |||||||
| Statistics | n/a | ||||||
| Literature | – Basic | ||||||
| – Problems | n/a, single case reports | ||||||
| – Science/Future | n/a | ||||||
| Medical Societies | No specific society deals with oral soft tissue use | ||||||
| Most oral implantologic societies concern the use of soft tissue for augmentation surrounding dental implants – see there. | |||||||
| Criticism | n/a | ||||||
| Selected Patient Information | n/a | ||||||
| Register (links) | n/a Materials are marked comprehensible and should be comprehensible documented in an implant-passport. | ||||||
| The Implant-Register offers registration of implants online and you can download a printable version for your personal use. | |||||||
| News | Market survey oral membranes 2016 (german) | ||||||
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