Implants are in general suitable for two categories of patients.

1) Patients with missing teeth who would like them replaced without the use of dentures.

2) Patients who would like to enhance the retention of their dentures by using implants. (Implant dentures)

They are not normally the method of choice for replacing an existing tooth. Crowning an existing tooth is more appropriate in the majority of cases.

The implants that we use are made of titanium and are manufactured by a company called Oraltronics. They have an informative website at http://www.oraltronics.com/eng/patienten_info/
p1.htm and also some frequently asked questions specific to implants here. The implantologist that we use is a specialist in this particular field of work. (See below)

(Dr Patonay's fact-sheets in DOC format and a link to adobe acrobat to enable download of the reader)