PERIODONTAL DISEASE/PERI-IMPLANT DISEASE MODEL [PE-PER015]
Features
- Shows the effects of periodontal disease/peri-implant disease allowing various ways to compare and explain with just one model
- Anatomical teeth with realistic crown and root
- Fully removable gingiva
- Lower right quadrant shows a healthy condition
- #46 tooth with implant and crown (not removable)
- Lower left quadrant depicts a diseased condition with various lesions
- Reddening and swollen gingiva on the diseased lower left quadrant
- Bone resorption seen throughout the diseased quadrant including the #36 implant
- Mobile teeth (#32~#35 and #37)
- Removable # 36 implant and crown
Purpose:
- To explain the resulting condition as well as the reasons and effects caused by periodontal disease/peri-implant disease, and help patients understand the risks associated
- Help raise patient awareness on the importance of care and maintenance of post implant treatment
- Useful in explaining:
- Difference in nature of bone resorption between periodontal disease and peri-implant disease
- Difference between healthy and diseased gingiva
- Risk of implant failure (overload) due to progressive peri-implantitis