The definition of the dental implant

Dental implant refers to the operation of transplanting an isolated tooth into another alveolar fossa. It can be divided into autologous dental implant transplantation and allogeneic tooth transplantation. The most common method of autologous tooth transplantation is to completely ambush the autologous or transplant the mandibular third molar that is about to sprout but the root has not been fully formed to the first molar.

Allogeneic dental implant transplantation is to transplant intact healthy teeth extracted for various reasons into the alveolar fossa of another allogeneic individual, which can be divided into direct method and indirect method. Direct method refers to the immediate transplantation of extracted teeth into the alveolar fossa of others, which is rarely used; Indirect method refers to the storage of extracted teeth before transplantation. This method is commonly used.