Dental Tribune Asia Pacific No. 6, 2016

04 Dental Tribune Asia Pacific Edition | 6/2016 BUSINESS MIS previews new B+ implant surface By DTI BARCELONA, Spain: Only about one year after the launch of its rev- olutionary V3 Implant System in London, MIS Implants Technolo- gies previewed its new B+ implant surface at the MIS Global Confer- ence in Barcelona last month. As preliminary research results indi- cate, the novel surface treatment enhances early osseointegration with greater fixation of the im- plant, helps maintain long-term implant stability and reduces the risk of implant failure signifi- cantly. The new implant surface is based on SurfLink technology, which was developed over a pe- riod of 12 years by Swiss compa- ny NBMolecules in collaboration with various academic institu- tions in Switzerland. It consists of a permanently bound layer of hydrophilic phosphorous-rich mo- lecules applied to the implant surface, can be used with metallic or ceramic dental and orthopaedic implants, and offers a range of benefits not found with any other surface treatment currently available. In Barcelona, Dr Björn- Owe Aronsson, Executive Di- rector and Chief Technology Officer at NBMolecules, in- troduced SurfLink to confer- ence participants. He con- cluded that SurfLink is a unique bio-mimicking im- plant surface treatment re- sulting in a bone-like surface. Its unique properties make the implant hydrophilic, al- lowing for a new type of in- tegration by eliminating the micro-gap between the bone and the implant, and en- hance fixation at an early stage for long-term stability. Thus, the implant surface helps produce predictable results in challenging cases, such as patients with compromised bone healing and poor blood supply. In addition, Dr Marco Esposito, Associate Professor of Biomate- rials at the Sahlgrenska Academy of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, presented the first clinical data on the new implant surface. Results from preliminary studies have shown that B+ is clinically safe, he stated. In order to verify the findings in larger cohorts, several universities are currently conducting tests in humans, with over 100 partici- pants. At a press meeting during the conference, Doron Peretz, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Development at MIS, explained that, together with the V3 Implant System with its unique triangular shape for enhanced hard- and soft-tissue regeneration around the implant, the B+ implant sur- face is the only real innovation in the dental implant market in the last several years and thus posi- tions MIS as the leader in the value segment. In an on-site interview with Dental Tribune Online, Prof. Mariano Sanz from the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain, said: “The implications of the B+ are very interesting. The pre- liminary results that were presented at this conference show that the B+ helps cre- ate a very stable interface. Reaching osseointegration is important and can be achieved through many im- plant surface treatments today. However, maintain- ing osseointegration is the most crucial aspect of den- tal implantology. If the B+ proves to do exactly this in the ongoing studies, then I believe it will be a great inno- vation.” The B+ will become available in March next year after the Inter- national Dental Show in Cologne in Germany. Sales of the V3 im- plant system started in the last quarter of 2015 in eight countries. To date MIS has sold about 20,000 of these implants. 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