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Strengthening prevention to improve dental and periodontal health conditions is a worldwide need and our mission and ambition. This goes far beyond the use of toothpaste.

Experience effective procedures, products and solutions which are engineered to prevent, diagnose and treat tooth loss or implant loss.

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Implant Health video

As the world’s leading company, Straumann Group has taken the initiative to work together with top experts to address the issue of peri-implantitis.

Peri-implant complications can lead to implant loss. But it doesn’t have to be.

Learn more about long-term prevention of peri-implant complications, by Susan Wingrove, RDH, BS.

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