Titanium dental implants compared to Zirconia ceramic dental implants

Over 60 years ago, a Swedish doctor by the name of Branemark discovered that when titanium was placed into contact with bone and left undisturbed, the bone grew right against the surface, making the titanium objects unremovable without cutting out the bone around the titanium. As a result, this discovery developed into today's implants. Originally, titanium seemed like an ideal material—its properties made it useful, practical and predictable. The initial implants were purely made of titanium, but they were a bit too soft, therefore an alloy (a mixture of metals or a mixture of a metal and another element) was developed to overcome the negative properties. Today, well over 95% of the dental implants placed are titanium alloys. Titanium is a metal, meaning it suffers corrosion. In addition, some people have a sensitivity or allergy to certain metails. A more biocompatible alternative is essential.

The dental implants procedures are performed masterfully at our office by Dr. Mona Monzavi.