ISO DIS 16443

Description / Abstract: This document specifies terms and definitions for dental implants and for instruments, accessories, and the most commonly used clinical terms related to implant systems and procedures in dentistry. Grafting materials and membranes are excluded from this standard.

The following devices are also excluded from the scope of this document.

Device specially designed to be placed within, through or upon the bones of the cranio-facial complex, the primary purpose of which is to provide anchorage for an epithesis (to replace for example : ears, noses and parts of eyes and orbital regions):

- epithesis implant;

- craniofacial implant;

- maxillofacial implant.

Device specially designed to be placed within, through or upon the bones of the cranio-facial complex, the primary purpose of which is to provide anchorage for an orthodontic appliance:

- orthodontic implant ¹⁾

1) This definition supersedes the one given in ISO 1942.