A new company has been formed which will accelerate growth in dental implantology in the UK and Ireland. DENTSPLY Implants is already providing stronger support to help dental professionals increase implant treatment volumes. The company is improving patient access to dental implants, introducing new prosthetic solutions and providing more postgraduate skills development for every member of the dental implant team.

DENTSPLY Implants combines the strengths of DENTSPLY Friadent and Astra Tech Dental. The new company offers a comprehensive product range including trusted implant systems backed by more than a quarter of a century of continuous development: ANKYLOS, ASTRA TECH Implant System and XiVE. Its portfolio incorporates some of the latest clinical and prosthetic innovations for the replacement of missing natural teeth, not least ATLANTIS patient-specific CAD/CAM abutments and ATLANTIS ISUS CAD/CAM superstructures.

Direct access to dental implant treatment will be further expanded during 2013, when the number of clinics featured on DENTSPLY Implants' dentists4implants.com swells to more than 200. General dental practitioners around the UK who wish to offer implant treatment will have the choice of more local 'R£LAX' events, to learn how easy it can be to complete the restorative phase of the treatment for their own patients. Meanwhile, for clinicians who want to begin placing implants, and any dental professional who wants to gain new skills and learn techniques, there is a wider range of postgraduate training and development to choose from on courses4implants.com.