State-of-the art, low cost, dental implant system

Implants for replacement and restoration of teeth has been in clinical use for decades with good clinical outcome for a selected patient group.

New and better dental implant systems the present unmet clinical needs are related to: Peri-implantitis, attachment of dental implants in low quality bone and better esthetics. But in middle-income countries the area of dentistry stands in front of a massive growth. As the income level increases the need for medical devices increases and especially in dentistry.

The rapid income growth in India has created a demand for state-of-the art, patent protected and cost effective technologies to be manufactured and sold in India. It is not possible to foresee development of such implants via the present commercial routes in the western world.

Thus new research and development routes will be needed to find an implant system solution that allows low cost and state-of-the art implants to be in clinical use.

The purpose with the proposal is to form a strong research network between Swedish and Indian researchers within the field of biomaterials and dental implants.

The aim is to that at project end of the project have performed 3 joint workshops, sent 4 researchers/PhD students/master students on research exchange and submitted one research proposal. The long term aim is to develop a state-of-the art affordable implant system for India.