Bone Maintenance: Implant Versus Transplant

1 January 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Biomaterials, Medical Devices, and Artificial Organs

Vol. 7 (2) , 333-338
https://doi.org/10.3109/10731197909117589

Abstract

Bone maintenance based on various attachment mechanisms is the key to tooth-root replacement safety and efficacy. The dental implant has broad applicability based on design, but demonstrates progressive peri-implant bone loss. The allogeneic tooth trans- plant, significantly less applicable because of size, is antigenic and rejected by bone-replacement root resorption. Since the predictability and survival times of these implant and transplant modalities are similar and there is less residual bone loss with the transplant, it is suggested that for clinical situations such as the fresh extraction socket, where there is room, the allotransplant, rather than the implant, is the root-replacement of choice.

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Clinical report of Homotransplantation
The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1963