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Nobel Biocare Teeth in an Hour

Summary: neat marketing slogan for something that takes rather longer than an hour, but use of CT scan enables a computer model of the patients mouth to be developed and totally accurate insertion to take place

There has been a lot of discussion in the press about the Teeth in an hour techniques and some resistance from dental implantologists wedding to the notion and traditional time frames of osseointegration (the process whereby the bones grows around the implant).

This process uses the information from a CAT scan to enable Nobel biocare to create a computer model of the treatment process and a physical guide which the implantologist uses to insert implants in a very accurate way to exploit strong and thick bone etc. This means that the implants can be loaded straight away with crowns and the normal wait of three months is avoided.

However, this is relatively new and seems to be applicable to patients with certain types of mouths and bone structures. Usually younger patients.

It takes more than an hour as you have to have the CT scan several weeks before surgery. It is also very expensive at the moment.