Zygoma Implant (Graftless Dental Treatment)

What are Zygoma Implants?

People wear dentures (artificial teeth) when they lose their natural teeth. The most common dentures are called `removable dentures’ because they are placed and removed by the patient on a regular basis. However, dentures can also be ‘fixed’ to the upper jawbone using titanium implants, thereby resembling the natural jaw-teeth relationship. Such ‘implant dentures’ increase the comfort and confidence of the patient.

However, many a time there is not enough bone in the upper jawbone to anchor the implants. In this case a ‘bone graft’ surgery is required - that is, some bone is taken from the hip region, grafted to the jaw bone and after about six months of healing, the patient is ready for the implant denture treatment.

A new technology was developed in Europe to do the upper jaw dental implant treatment without using the hipbone graft. This ‘graft-less technique’, also called the ‘Zygoma technique’ (developed by Prof. Branemark & Nobel Biocare, Sweden) uses the cheekbone (Zygoma bone) to anchor the longer zygoma implants. This has the following advantages over conventional implant techniques:

Who can benefit from (requires) Zygoma implants?

Zygoma implants are appropriate for any person with missing or shaky teeth in their upper jaw. They are appropriate for all age groups except children. In fact, a majority of our zygoma implant cases have been performed on young people between the ages of 25 and 40 with shaky or loose teeth. The new artificial set of fixed permanent teeth they get almost immediately allows them to eat normal food (including hard and crunchy food) and to smile with confidence. The functional, aesthetic and psychological benefits of this procedure are tremendous.

WHY RAJAN DENTAL?

1. Rajan Dental has India’s most qualified and experienced team for zygoma implants comprising of excellent clinicians and support staff:
• - Dr. Gunaseelan Rajan (MBBS, BDS, FDSRCS (England), Ph.D)
  Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon
• - Dr. Saravana kumar (MDS)
  Prosthodontist
• - Dr. Shradha Nichani (MDS)
  Periodontist
• - Mr. TarekFeissali (CDT)
  German Lab Technician
2. All facilities under one roof – Operation Theatre facility, Cone Beam CT Scan (Sirona – Germany), Advanced Dental Implant Laboratory headed by German Dental Technician TarekFessali.
3. Members of Rajan Dental’s team are highly sought after speakers for national and international implant conferences. The team also has two international scientific journal publications in peer reviewed dental journals on zygoma implants in the recent past:
International Publications:
• Gunaseelan Rajan, Saravan kumar M, Hariharan R
  Restoration of failing maxillary implant supported fixed prosthesis with cross arch splinted unilateral zygomatic implant: A Clinical Report.
  J Oral Implantol
  Jul 05, 2011
  
• Baig MR, Gunaseelan Rajan
  Treatment of a Maxillary dento-alveolar defect using an immediately loaded definitive zygoma implant-retained prosthesis with 11-month follow-up: A Clinical Report.
  J Oral Implantol
  Vol. 36 (1): 31-5 2010
  
National Publications:
• Gunaseelan Rajan, Mirza Rustum Baig, John Nesan, Jayaram Subramanian.
  “Fixed rehabilitation of patient with aggressive periodontitis using Zygoma implants.”
  Indian Journal of Dental Research.
  21(1) 2010.
• Rajan Gunaseelan. “Zygomatic Implants New Frontiers of Implantology’. Indian Dental Association – Clinical Dentistry. Vol. II, Issue 3, pages 64-67, Nov. 2007.
4. The team from Rajan Dental led by Dr. R. Gunaseelan performed India’s first zygoma implant surgery on March 30, 2007 on the Rajan Dental premises. Rajan Dental also has to its credit, India’s first:
• - ‘Teeth in an hour’ concept dental implant
• - Computer based planning and Nobel-guide implant surgical technique
• - Specialized Zygoma Implant technique / Immediate prosthesis centre