Abstract
The conventional concept of dental implants completely lacks odontology. Therefore, the
dental implant system is quite different from the gompholic mammalian tooth system.
Developmental research on artificial dental roots of the mammalian gompholic system has
been carried out by the author successfully for the first time in the world from the viewpoint
of odontology. Characteristics of the mammalian tooth system are gompholic and
heterodontia with tribosphenic tritubercular molars. The meaning of heterodontia in
morphology, i.e., several variations in crown and root shapes in different sites of mammalian
jawbones are optimal shapes according to the different tooth functions, i.e., sphenic incisors
and canines, and tribosphenic-tritubercular molars. For the optimal shapes of teeth adapted to
their functions, the gompholic joint system is inevitable, i.e., fibrous articulation with
cementoblasts, ligaments with capillaries, and the alveolar bone proper (socket bone). From
this viewpoint, the author has developed artificial dental roots of the heterodontia gompholic
system. Integrated research on animal experiments, biomechanical research as well as clinical
research, have been carried out. It has been proved by microanalyses, microscopy, and
scanning electromicroscopy (SEM) that cementoblasts, the cementum, periodontal ligaments,
and the alveolar bone proper (socket bone), develop around artificial roots.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications Ltd
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