It is a fact that our masticatory system requires a very balanced, structured, organized and efficient work which involves muscles, bones, joints and many other anatomical structures that in conjunction can help the human being to chew and survive generations after generations.
What we forget is that those natural components have been design by mother nature, not by the human being and the forces applied over our implants, abutments, restorations and many other materials to restore esthetics and function are extremely aggressive.
Today´s generation of implants fight in the market to show the less micromovement and microleakage thanks to conical connections which create a cold welding effect and no movement of the abutment in order to avoid screw looseing and periimplantitis. The use of zirconia restorations that do not absorb overloading forces which communicates with the underlying bone creates bone resorption around our initially osseointegrated implants. The use of flexible and more resilient materiels will help to disipate overloading forces generated by parafunctional habits, malocclusion, etc…
