Basal implantology can be summarized in five points:

• All dental implant candidates, without exception, can benefit from this technique, regardless of the severity of their bone loss or the extent of their edentulousness (partial or total).
  
  
• Only one surgical procedure is necessary because basal implants can be loaded with a transitional, cement-retained prosthesis at the end of the surgery. The final restorations are made 6 to 8 weeks later, once bone healing is complete.
  
  
• The fewer number of surgeries required means that the cost is less than for conventional techniques.
  
  
• Basal implants do not disturb the vascularization of the spongiosa and have excellent resilience and flexibility.
  
  
• As patients are fitted with a fixed, functional prosthesis the day after surgery, they can rapidly resume a normal affective and socio-professional life.
  
  

Prior to the introduction of basal implantology, implant candidates were obliged to undergo four different surgical procedures over a one year period in order to receive axial implants:

• extraction of all diseased teeth, curettage of granulation tissue, and preparation of the gingiva,
  
  
• bone grafting two months later, with the outcome of the donor site remaining a potential problem,
  
  
• insertion of the axial implants six months later,
  
  
• finally, after another six months, placement of the functionally loaded prosthesis.
  
  

Besides these four unavoidable procedures, additional periodontal surgery was sometimes required to correct the gingiva.

Axial implantology thus actually placed these patients in a paradoxical situation: they desired implants because the idea of a removable denture was unacceptable, yet they found themselves obliged to wear one for 18 months! Even worse, they were often requested to go without any prosthesis at all during the two week period required for mucosal healing after the second and third surgeries.