Osseointegrative Implant Companies?
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pt
Oct 8, 2009, 6:50:58 PM10/8/09
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Colleagues,
What may be helpful in our profession is to compile a list of
companies that provide endosseous/transcutaneous implants for facial
prosthetics. I currently know of the following companies. I would like
to put together a cost comparison for the different systems for 2009.
I think you will find a wide range of prices.
* Cochlear Americas http://www.cochlearamericas.com/ and I am not sure
if they sell to other countries as a global company http://www.cochlear.com/
. CA currently has a monopoly on bone anchored hearing aids and
somewhat of a monopoly on the facial prosthetics implants.
* Straumann USA http://www.straumann.us/ and I am not sure if they
sell to other countries as a global company http://www.straumann.com/
. Straumann stopped marketing about 2 years ago and has discontinued
their extraoral product line. They are currently depleting their
inventory, if they have not already.
* Conexão http://www.conexaomaster.com.br/extraoral.htm This is a
Brazilian company that markets to South and Central America.
There are also one or two others in South America that I am waiting to
hear back from. What about Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia?
If you have information or documents to send me, send them to
ptannerprosthetic at yahoo dot com
What may be helpful in our profession is to compile a list of
companies that provide endosseous/transcutaneous implants for facial
prosthetics. I currently know of the following companies. I would like
to put together a cost comparison for the different systems for 2009.
I think you will find a wide range of prices.
* Cochlear Americas http://www.cochlearamericas.com/ and I am not sure
if they sell to other countries as a global company http://www.cochlear.com/
. CA currently has a monopoly on bone anchored hearing aids and
somewhat of a monopoly on the facial prosthetics implants.
* Straumann USA http://www.straumann.us/ and I am not sure if they
sell to other countries as a global company http://www.straumann.com/
. Straumann stopped marketing about 2 years ago and has discontinued
their extraoral product line. They are currently depleting their
inventory, if they have not already.
* Conexão http://www.conexaomaster.com.br/extraoral.htm This is a
Brazilian company that markets to South and Central America.
There are also one or two others in South America that I am waiting to
hear back from. What about Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia?
If you have information or documents to send me, send them to
ptannerprosthetic at yahoo dot com
michael williams
Oct 8, 2009, 7:32:49 PM10/8/09
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Hi Paul, Cochlear are the only company to market CI/BAHA rehab in australasia and as you are probably aware, Cochlear are an australian company. I can send you pricing for our market in NZ but we have been sourcing standard gold cylinders/ screws etc ie the prosthetic bits usually from dental implant manufacturers because they are virtual copies and cheaper.
regards,
Mike
Mike Williams, RCDT,MIMPT(UK), Maxillofacial Prosthetist & Technologist Maxillofacial,Oral Surgery and Dental Department, Waikato Hospital, Pembroke Street, Private Bag 3200, Hamilton, New Zealand. Tel ++64 7 839 8805 Fax ++64 7 839 8996 --- On Fri, 9/10/09, pt <ptannerp...@yahoo.com> wrote: |
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h.reintsema
Oct 11, 2009, 6:51:09 AM10/11/09
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Dear Colleagues,
In Europe (I am based in Holland / the Netherlands) it is mainly
Cochlear implants that have been used for facial prosthetics. However,
eversince Nobel sold their extra-oral implantology package to Entific
(about ten years ago?) which was later sold to Cochlear, the implant-
technology had not been changed anymore. This where every implant
company developed other surface characteristics for its implants, to
give their implants better osseointegration chances. For the mastoid
region we still using the Cochlear implants, for the nasal and orbital
region we use more often intra-oral implants (in general from
NobelBiocare TiUnite) where ever the bone quantity allows us. One of
the advantages of working in the NobelBiocare-line is the fast amount
of prosthetic solutions that can be thought of!
Straumann has been selling short implants as wel,l at leats in the
past (in my memory with 4 or 5 mm length), however their prosthetics
components were not really directed for extra-oral use, we thought. We
talked to them in 2004 and eversince it became silent. How they doing
these days I do not really know, as we have not been using it for
extra oral cases since long times.
From South Africa Southern Implants are distributed and they seem very
interested in different applications, like for facial prosthesis. It
is not in their catalogue, but I know e.g. Keith Thomas has contacts
with them as well. They have short implants. Graham Blackbeard is
their man to talk to, I think.
In the last place you can think of the extra-oral plates for retention
of facial prostheses, like the EpiPlating system (medicon) or the
Epitec system (which turned out recently no longer to be supported by
Stryker, and thus no longer available in Holland) We have no
experience with those systems, But are interested for larger midface
defects where it might be the only solution remaining. In some of the
German spoken countries these systems are used more often; however not
very well documented. There was some discussion on these systems on
the site lately.
So far our experiences,
Regards, Harry Reintsema
dr. H. Reintsema
Center for Special Dental Care and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Dept.
for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University Medical Center Groningen
PO-box 30.001, BB70
NL-9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
tel: +31-50 3613859
fax +31-50 3612831
e-mail: h.rei...@kchir.umcg.nl
In Europe (I am based in Holland / the Netherlands) it is mainly
Cochlear implants that have been used for facial prosthetics. However,
eversince Nobel sold their extra-oral implantology package to Entific
(about ten years ago?) which was later sold to Cochlear, the implant-
technology had not been changed anymore. This where every implant
company developed other surface characteristics for its implants, to
give their implants better osseointegration chances. For the mastoid
region we still using the Cochlear implants, for the nasal and orbital
region we use more often intra-oral implants (in general from
NobelBiocare TiUnite) where ever the bone quantity allows us. One of
the advantages of working in the NobelBiocare-line is the fast amount
of prosthetic solutions that can be thought of!
Straumann has been selling short implants as wel,l at leats in the
past (in my memory with 4 or 5 mm length), however their prosthetics
components were not really directed for extra-oral use, we thought. We
talked to them in 2004 and eversince it became silent. How they doing
these days I do not really know, as we have not been using it for
extra oral cases since long times.
From South Africa Southern Implants are distributed and they seem very
interested in different applications, like for facial prosthesis. It
is not in their catalogue, but I know e.g. Keith Thomas has contacts
with them as well. They have short implants. Graham Blackbeard is
their man to talk to, I think.
In the last place you can think of the extra-oral plates for retention
of facial prostheses, like the EpiPlating system (medicon) or the
Epitec system (which turned out recently no longer to be supported by
Stryker, and thus no longer available in Holland) We have no
experience with those systems, But are interested for larger midface
defects where it might be the only solution remaining. In some of the
German spoken countries these systems are used more often; however not
very well documented. There was some discussion on these systems on
the site lately.
So far our experiences,
Regards, Harry Reintsema
dr. H. Reintsema
Center for Special Dental Care and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Dept.
for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University Medical Center Groningen
PO-box 30.001, BB70
NL-9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
tel: +31-50 3613859
fax +31-50 3612831
e-mail: h.rei...@kchir.umcg.nl
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