DENTAL IMPLANTS NEED A SECOND LOOK

 Dental implants have provided a perfect set of teeth for millions. But around 10-20% of those with implants get a serious infection that can damge the jawbone. The infection  cannot be controlled by antibiotics most often. 

Scientists from Rutgers School of Dental medicine have found why it happens like that. 

According to them, it's because bacteria corrode these implants to release tiny titannium particles that trap immune cells in a perpetually inflamed state.

Eventually, the phenomenon destroys the jawbone.

In mice models, they saw how these titannium cells activated a calcium channel in immune cells that kept the infection alive.

Disabling the channel helped prevent the disease

Source:
The Times of India 28 October 2026