With bone grafts a child needed to be hospitalized for four or five days with his or her teeth wired together. Now these young patients usually stay only overnight. They can continue to eat, and we don't have to graft bone. We use that occasionally for people with facial spasms. But we also have started using it for people with frown lines between the eyes or wrinkles in the forehead.
Implants have kind of a negative connotation because of silicone breast implants.
Bone graft implants are one example. We'll see the continued refinement of distraction osteogenesis. Along with that we'll also see less invasive surgical procedures. We're using endoscopic techniques, and we expect continual development there. Virtual reality techniques will develop.