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Home ALL-ON-4/6 Why getting an implant passport is a must?
14Mar

Why getting an implant passport is a must?

by Sara Boulhanna

You may already have dental implants in your mouth. If you do but you don’t know what their brand and model is – you may end up in a trouble!

One of the things you need to make sure during your implant treatment is getting an implant passport. Why is it so important and why do almost all clinics fail to provide it to their patients?
This post provides the answer so read on…

Quite often patients visit our clinic with the need to make a corrective procedure on top of their existing implants made at another clinic. Unfortunately, there is no way to help these patients because they do not have a passport for their implants and we are faced with an impossible mission to find out what brand they are. Furthermore, the implant passport contains other valuable details like for example the torque used when placed.

Each implant brand needs specific tools for placing and removing. It is very rare that the tools of one brand are compatible with those of another. For this reason, not only we at Sofia Implant Centre, but also any other clinic, would not be able to help you. And this is indeed the very reason why you did not receive this very important document in the first place! So that you cannot be treated in any other place and you will have to return again and again to the same clinic!

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