For the past few years, scientists in Romania have been developing a structure for a new dental implant that could mimic natural tooth mobility.
Professor Dimitriu Pop from the Faculty of Mechanical Systems Engineering of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and the dentist Manea Avram were able to push the boundaries of medical and technical sciences to develop a solution to this issue. Thus, in 2011, a project was born to develop a dental implant that could reproduce the physiological mobility of a real tooth. Until that time, there was not a single study of this idea that would have had a result.
Romanian scientists took advantage of the example of their colleagues who had previously explored this issue. Traditionally, a customized titanium alloy formed the basis for the new implant. A feature of the development is a new scheme of the implant. It is made of a special elastic material that will allow the artificial tooth to make lateral and longitudinal movements, imitating the physiological needs of the real one. The development has already been registered and patented by scientists. The developers also received an award for their innovative research.
Unfortunately, such implants will not soon enter the circulation in dentistry. The fact is that now scientists need to conduct a series of expensive studies.
Innovative implant placement experiments and other scientific developments on this subject will continue after Dr. Avram receives a research grant. But even after all the experiments and introduction of this development into dentistry, not everyone will be able to afford this implant. The high cost of the material for manufacturing will affect its cost.
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