What does it mean to have a clean dental implant?
Featured Products Promotional FeaturesPosted by: Dental Design 2nd October 2022
Joining us at the ADI Team Congress 2023 is Dr Dirk Duddeck – renowned clinician and the founder of the CleanImplant Foundation.
He explains the organisation’s aims and the importance of truly clean dental implants:
“The CleanImplant Foundation has analysed over 300 different implants from 200 companies – 1 in 3 show significant organic contaminants, remnants, or impurities. As clinicians, we should not accept this.
“The CleanImplant Foundation is a non-profit organisation who guarantees total transparency and 100% unbiased analyses. In 2017, we developed the first consensus paper to establish a threshold of acceptable contamination, defining what makes a dental implant ‘clean’. The companies whose products meet our requirements understand the problem. They have invested money, time, effort, and extensive human resources on improving their production processes and corresponding quality management as a result.
“I hope delegates in my session will be encouraged to ask their sales representatives if they have unbiased proof that their dental implant is as clean as they say. If they are unknowingly using a product that is not as clean as they think, they could be looking in the wrong areas to determine why their patients experience peri-implantitis. “
Join us at the ADI Team Congress next year to hear more from Dr Dirk Duddeck.
The ADI Team Congress 2023 will be held on 4-6 May at the Birmingham ICC. Visit the website for details in due course. ADI members get significantly discounted rates for all ADI events.
