Here are the differences between basal implant and traditional dental implant:
- Smooth surface for the basal implant and rough for the traditional dental implant.
- Larger diameter of the traditional dental implant than the one of the basal implant .
- The basal implant does not require a bone graft even when there is a lack of bone.
- The basal implant is placed in the 2nd layer of the cortical bone. Therefore, its name is a bi-cortical implant. The traditional dental implant is placed in the spongy part of the bone, the alveolar bone.
- The basal implant is said to be immediate, it can be placed immediately after tooth extraction and its prosthesis is fixed within 72 hours of placing the basal implant. Conventional dental implants require a period of osseointegration of 3 to 4 months before placing the prosthesis fixed.
- The basal implant can easily be removed or corrected. The classic dental implant is very complex to be extracted. Its removal leads to the destruction of an important bone mass.