Zahnimplantate und Medizinprodukte

Astra Tech, ein Marktführer im Bereich der zahnärztlichen Implantologie, gibt seine Anfang 2010 beginnende, strategische Allianz mit Dental Wings bekannt, dem in Kanada ansässigen Anbieter von CAD/CAM-Lösungen mit einer Spezialisierung bei der Entwicklung von 3D-Scannern. Durch die Kooperation werden die Nutzer von Dental Wings weltweit in die Lage versetzt, Scans elektronisch an die Design- und Herstellungszentren von Astra Tech zu übermitteln – für die Produktion der patientenspezifischen und für alle wichtigen Implantatsysteme verwendbaren Abutments von Atlantis™.

The five-year follow-up study on OsseoSpeed™ implants confirms the successful results presented in previous studies.

The five-year follow-up study was made by Dr. Steveling and co-workers at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Heidelberg University in Germany. The conclusion is that the OsseoSpeed™ implant shows very good results also in compromised sites when using an early loading protocol.

Press information 4 June 2008
“Follow-up research among patients consistently shows a marginal bone level reduction of just 0.4 mm or less for Astra Tech dental implants, a performance indicator at least three times superior to the industry norm. The findings involve hundreds of individual cases and are remarkable in their consistency,” says Lyndon Cooper, Professor of Dentistry in the Department of Prosthodontics at the University of North Carolina, who has performed one of the studies.

3M ESPE and Astra Tech AB, a leader and innovator in the dental implant industry, announce a global partnership to provide Astra Tech’s Atlantis™ patient-specific abutments to 3M ESPE Lava™ customers. The two companies have developed an interface which will enable the Lava™ Scan ST Design System to communicate directly with Astra Tech’s Atlantis technology.