OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Our activities and characteristics

Dental implant treatment involves placing artificial tooth roots and, when necessary, augmenting jaw bone and soft tissue to restore teeth and jaw structures lost for various reasons, to replace or augment jaw bones and teeth that have been lost for various reasons including caries and periodontal disease, but also including injury, accident, cancer, and so on. The Dental Implant Center at Okayama University Hospital integrates specialized implant-related treatments that were previously provided by individual departments. It provides advanced multidisciplinary therapy in a safer way, providing advanced multidisciplinary treatment safely, with careful management of systemic conditions through close collaboration among related departments including Department of Oral Rehabilitation and Implantology, Department of Prosthodontics, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Reconstructive Surgery, and Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and supportive departments including the Department of General Medicine, Plastic Surgery Department, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Periodontics and Endodontics, Department of Preventive Dentistry, Department of Dental Anesthesiology, Division of Dental Hygiene, and the Dental Laboratory Division. When requirements are met, we can offer immediate restoration so that a temporary tooth can be installed in one day or on the following day to avoid trouble in daily life. For patients who have extensive loss of the jaw bone (one third or more of the jaw) because of a traffic accident or after tumor resection, we also offer bone-anchored devices for a wide edentulous area when the device is applicable to the patient. This application of implant technology is covered by public health insurance. If you are interested in the dental implant therapy, please consult your attending physician or contact the staff of the Department of Oral Rehabilitation and Implantology.