What is the difference between an implant and a prosthetic A

What is the difference between an implant and a prosthetic? Are these terms interchangeable? (In Probability terminology: are they a union or an intersection?) Would you classify the following materials as implants, prosthetics, both, or neither? Be sure to provide your rationale for your answer.

a. Short use contact lens

b. Crutches

c. Orthodontic braces

d. IUD

e. Vascular graft

Solution

The prosthesis is , artificial replacement of body parts either internally or externally. The implant, introduced surgically to deep into the body. We all know that short usable contact lenses are implants. Intra uterine contraceptive device also implants The vascular grafts are also implants Crutches are mobility aids.they neither implants nor prosthetics. They modify the structure and function of skeletal muscle hence they called orthotics. Orthodontic braces modify the structure of teeth. Hence they not called as implant or prosthetic.