When the tissue surrounding your teeth is severely compromised, you can face tooth loss, but you still have a chance to preserve your smile. Emdogain is a group of proteins that is applied directly to the tooth root during a minor surgical procedure. These enamel matrix proteins are what helped your teeth form when you were a child.

Your body recognizes the proteins and helps stimulate your own periodontal cells to form the tissue fibers that anchor your teeth. Emdogain not only helps to promote the reformation of tooth attachment fibers upon application, but it also continues the development of new fibers up to one year. Scientifically documented and researched, over one million patients worldwide have been treated with Emdogain.

For more information on Emdogain, visit the Straumann site here.

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