How has that changed the field of dentistry, being able to do this quite advanced procedure?
Dr. Johnson: The technology of dental implants has – in my opinion – been the most significant change in the last 30 years of dentistry. What implants represent are titanium replacement for the roots of teeth that bond directly to bone with an extremely high success rate and can be used as anchors, just like the roots of teeth, to rebuild individual teeth that have been lost, groups of teeth that have been lost, or even entire mouths of teeth that have been lost, and restore them to full and natural function. Dental fillings and dental bridges all take a damaged tooth and repair it as well as possible. Ultimately, a great deal of these repairs fail structurally. Dental implants are the first time in my career that dentistry has been able to provide something new that is actually stronger and more biologically and structurally sound than what we had to work with before. Dental1: Do you think that we are ever going to see a point where dental implants replace the traditional bridgework a
