Tissue Level Implants

• What are tissue-level implants, and what are their benefits?
• Tissue level vs bone level implants – What’s the difference?
• Discover our range of available tissue-level implants and also our sister site dedicated to Meisinger dental implants and solutions

What Are Tissue Level Dental Implants?

In dentistry, tissue-level prosthetic implants are designed for trans- or subgingival healing at the oral soft tissue level. Due to their expert design, one-stage surgical protocol is supported, meaning that the implant can be placed and the abutment connected in the same dental procedure, eliminating the need for additional surgery to expose the dental implant shoulder. This also allows for non-submerged healing, enabling bone fusion, or osseointegration, and soft tissue attachment. These dental solutions are usually favoured for patients who have less oral bone volume and for posterior (back) teeth where optimal aesthetic results are less critical.

What Are The Benefits Of Tissue Level Implants?

• Due to it being a one-stage procedure, patient discomfort and healing times are massively reduced. This also allows for more efficient and straightforward restorative dentistry and treatments, saving your dental practice or dentist surgery and patients time and money.
• Tissue-level implants are regarded as an incredible natural solution when it comes to restorative dentistry, resulting in natural-looking soft tissue results for patients.
• Tissue-level implants are praised industry-wide for causing minimal disturbance to your patient’s soft tissues. This is due to the installation process: because the abutment is only a single piece, they don’t require repeated abutment removal and reconnection.

Tissue Level vs. Bone Level Implants – What’s The Difference?

There are three major differences between tissue-level and bone-level implants: implant design, implant placement and patient recovery time. Let’s take a closer look at these…

1. Implant Design: Tissue-level implants have an implant collar which sticks out, whereas contrastingly, bone-level systems, as mentioned in the name, are designed to fully submerge under the patient’s bone.
2. Implant Placement: Typically, tissue-level dental solutions are placed transmucosally. By contrast, a bone-level dental implant, again, references its name, and bone, in this case, refers to the epicrestal level of a patient’s mouth.
3. Patient Recovery Time: Procedural recovery time for patients and their mouths is probably one of the biggest differences between tissue-level implants and bone-level implants. Whereas the typical recovery time for tissue-level implants is only 2 weeks, bone-level implants take a significantly longer time to heal, usually between 4 to 6 months.

Dental professionals and dentists typically decide between the two based on three other factors: purpose, function and the location the implant needs to be in. Both tissue-level and bone-level solutions have their individual benefits; for example, tissue-level dental implants are easy to maintain and clean as the rough surface of the implant is less likely to be exposed. Contrastingly, for better complication prevention, bone-level solutions lead the way due to their unmatched level of support and stability.

Discover Our Range Of Available Meisinger Tissue Level Implants, And Where You Can Get Them From…

A long-time partner of Meisinger, a pioneer in dental solutions, we are proud to stock a range of Meisinger dental implants, including their RP Conical and RP Standard tissue-level implants. Designed over years of sustained clinical research, these solutions are designed with optimal efficiency, accuracy and results. Dentists and other dental professionals have praised their renowned emergence profile with a vertical platform shift for creating optimal conditions for surrounding tissue. For example, due to their vertical platform with a distance of 1.8mm from the patient’s Crestal bone, implant-abutment connection has never been easier during dental prosthetic restorations. For dental procedures focusing on the patient’s edentulous jaws and posterior region, this is particularly beneficial.

These solutions are available on our J&S Davis website and on our sister site, where we stock an extensive range of Meisinger solutions, from dental implants to digital dental solutions, educational courses, bone management, and finishing and polishing kits. Please click here to view the site.

For more information on any of the tissue-level implants and other dental solutions we stock and distribute at J&S Davis, please click here to contact us or call our team of experts on 01438 747344.