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The Effects Of Periodontal Disease

By: John Chambers

Periodontal disease leads to the loss of about 30 million teeth by Americans on an annual basis. What happens here is that the hard tissue of the jaws is exposed because plaque fosters bacteria that eat away gums.

Afterwards, the tooth starts to work loose for the bone in the jaws decays and recedes. Considering this process, dentists are hopeful that a new material known as HTR polymer will be able to stop it. Working wonders for them in this case is gritting their patients' teeth.

It has been nine years and there are several periodontists on the East Coast that continue to pack HTR polymer into the gaps that occur between the teeth and the diseased jaws. Such a polymer is made up of tiny porous plastic beads coated with a calcium compound and these are useful in bolstering jaw ridges as denture anchors not to mention preventing jaw deterioration where a tooth has been removed.

For one New York periodontist, animal bones, plaster of Paris, human bones, and all sorts of fillers have been tried out. In this case, none of these have been working as consistently.

According to the new materials manufacturer, the product can save a lot of teeth, even millions of them, one company spokesman said. When it comes to HTR, a number of experts remain skeptical just like they were with various ceramics and metal pins that preceded it.

As the official of the American Dental Association's council on materials and instruments said, there is no jury here. A material that can stimulate bone growth has yet to be discovered. A recent company backed survey of 64 dentists, periodontists and oral surgeons found that in 647 uses of the material, 634 were considered a success.

When it comes to the failures, these occurred during the attempt to save teeth loosened by periodontal disease. There were experimental uses for HTR in New York clinics and clinics surrounding the area long before the Food and Drug Administration approval was received in 1983. What the company claims is that a 98 percent success rate in more than 4,000 uses worldwide can be attributed to the material.

With regard to the results and the material itself, the dental association has no official position for they have not received these yet. For this material, hoping that it will gain acceptance nationwide is the company.

It is negatively charged not to mention biologically compatible, nonreabsorbable, and hydrophilic making it able to take up water. Considering the ideal grafting material, this is HTR.

He describes the way HTR works as both mysterious and simple. Injected in the corroded space around the tooth are the small granules so that they can serve as a sort of scaffolding around which new bone material can collect and grow.
Because the material has a hydrophilic nature, it can attract wet bone marrow cells and the negative charge holds them there and stimulates growth. In order for the material to integrate with the bone, there is a need for calcium.

In stopping with teeth, this man who was once the head of dental research at a medical school in New York is no longer willing to consider this. HTR stands for hard tissue replacement, and he said he believes wherever there is need for that, HTR should work.

It was a considerable amount of work on the spinal fusion and in the treatment of bone fractures that they have already done. When it comes to HTR, as long as it is properly molded it can be used as a complete bone replacement.

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