METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREPARING A DENTAL IMPLANT BY IMMERSION IN A MESENCHYMAL CELL CULTURE

• Main Author: GAULT PHILIPPE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.03.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; DENTISTRY; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

The present invention concerns a method of manufacturing a dental implant comprising: preparing an implant composed of a root portion and a crown portion and constituted by an inert biocompatible material in a shape which is adapted to an extracted tooth; immersing the root portion of said implant into a culture of undifferentiated mesenchymal cells in a culture medium the composition of which allows differentiation into cementoblasts and fibroblasts, over a period which is sufficient for said differentiation and for adhesion of cementoblasts to the root portion and the formation of a first layer of cementum and an alveolodental ligament primordium attached to said cementum; recovering the implant carrying differentiated tissues affixed to its root portion.