Dental implants are fixtures for artificial teeth that are implanted directly into the jaw bone.
As a permanent replacement for missing teeth, they are growing in popularity over the traditional denture treatment, but the current state of the art in implant technology can use some improvement. Current implants can come loose, and by exerting insufficient or excessive levels of stress on the jaw, they can ultimately cause the bone to weaken. Threaded connectors are the link between the two businesses, as Greg Bailey, engineering manager at Crystal Medical Technology, explains. Since we had experience with high-performance threads, he set up Crystal to improve on dental implants which incorporate two or three threaded connectors depending on the design. We've gone from 7-inch diameter pipe threads to 2 mm implant threads, but they all look the same on the screen.