Zygomatic implant

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The zygomatic implant has provided a viable alternative for treatment of patients with extreme resorption of the edentulous and resorbed maxilla. Before the zygomatic implant has been introduced by Per-Ingvar Branemark there was implant-supported or retained fixed or removable prostheses in the atrophic maxilla could only be considered after extensive ridge preparation. The zygoma implant is an extended-length titanium fixture that is placed through the crestal bone aspect of the resorbed posterior maxilla transantrally into the compact bone of the zygoma.