Painless Dental Implants
Dental Implants are titanium posts that are inserted into your bone and act like the roots of your teeth. They allow us to eat, speak, smile and live with confidence. Additionally, dental implants help maintain your bone structure, allowing for a more youthful look throughout your life. An implant doesn't come loose like a denture can. They more closely represent your natural teeth and they are simply the best solution for missing teeth. Get your smile back. Get your confidence back. And change your life with implants.
How do Dental Implants Work?
Because implants fuse to your jawbone, they provide stable support for artificial teeth. Dentures and bridges mounted to implants won't slip or shift in your mouth — an especially important benefit when eating and speaking. This secure fit helps the dentures and bridges — as well as individual crowns placed over implants — feel more natural than conventional bridges or dentures.
For some people, ordinary bridges and dentures are simply not comfortable or even possible, due to sore spots, poor ridges or gagging. In addition, ordinary bridges must be attached to teeth on either side of the space left by the missing tooth. An advantage of implants is that no adjacent teeth need to be prepared or ground down to hold your new replacement tooth/teeth in place.
To receive implants, you need to have healthy gums and adequate bone to support the implant. You must also commit to keeping these structures healthy. Meticulous oral hygiene and regular dental visits are critical to the long-term success of dental implants.
What Is A DENTAL IMPLANT PROCEDURE Like?
Dental Implants: Everything you need to know about dental implants, including answers to your questions about dental implants and Implantologist.
• Dental implants are the next best thing to your healthy, natural teeth. Strong and stable, a dental implant restores a lost tooth so that it looks, feels, fits and functions like a natural tooth when implanted by a Qualified Implantologist. Other options such as dentures or bridges can lead to bone deterioration, and may interfere with eating, smiling, speaking and other activities of everyday life.
• Dental implants are built to last. That makes them your best long-term, cost-effective solution. Traditional, tooth-supported dental bridges only last five to seven years, and with proper care often more than 10 years, but at some point they may need to be replaced. Those costs can really add up over time. While dental implants may need periodic adjustments, they can last a lifetime when properly placed and cared for over time by dental implantologist.
• Dental implants allow you to enjoy life without worrying about your teeth! There is no need for you to stay home or feel uncomfortable in public, embarrassed because your smile looks different, or worry that missing teeth will limit your ability to join in the fun. And you certainly don't need to worry like you do with removable dentures or tooth-supported replacement teeth could loosen or fall out when you talk, eat or laugh. Teeth restored with dental implants are teeth that let you, not your teeth, lead your life. At Joanna’s skilled dental implant experts offer many wonderful success stories!
• Dental implants retain your natural face shape, and smile. A face without teeth can sag and appear sunken and sad. Dental implants allow you to maintain the natural shape of your face and smile. It's important to talk to an Implantologist before you consider any other option because some other tooth replacement options have the side effect of allowing your appearance to change over time, which may not be attractive.
• Dental implants protect your healthy bone. Leaving empty spaces in your mouth after losing one or more teeth can lead to additional health issues, such as the loss and deterioration of some of your jawbone. When it is not being used to support a natural tooth, the jawbone deteriorates, losing its strength and firmness. Dental implants are the only dental restoration option that preserves and stimulates natural bone, actually helping to stimulate bone growth and prevent bone loss.
• Dental implants keep your teeth in your mouth – not in a cup like dentures. Dental implants allow you to keep your teeth where they belong – in your mouth. And no more worrying that your dentures might slip or fall out. Brush, floss and care for teeth that have been replaced using dental implants exactly the way you would natural teeth – in your mouth
• Dental implants allow you to speak easy, so you're not embarrassed. Adjusting to removable dentures can mean struggling to pronounce everyday words. Not so with dental implants, which function like natural teeth.
• Dental implants allow you to eat your favorite foods! Sounds great, doesn't it! You can taste and enjoy the foods you love without hesitation when you have dental implants placed by a proven dental implant dentist. You can bite naturally, and eat virtually anything you want with dental implants. Unlike removable dentures that can feel uncomfortable, you can experience the full taste of the food you eat with dental implants.
• Dental implants keep your teeth in place – silently. Dentures may slip when you eat, talk, smile, laugh, kiss, yawn or cough, so that you have to “reposition” them back into place in the mouth. Dental implants are fixed in place and fuse naturally with your jawbone, meaning your replaced teeth won’t move, click or shift. Much better!
• Dental implants also protect your healthy teeth. Placing a tooth-supported bridge requires grinding away the teeth on one or both sides of the missing tooth or teeth – thereby damaging healthy teeth to restore those that are missing. The modified healthy teeth are attached to, and support, the bridge. In contrast, dental implants go in the jawbone where your missing tooth root was, without damaging healthy teeth. Dental implants also help prevent healthy, adjacent teeth from shifting - otherwise those teeth could shift into the empty space next to them.
• Dental implants are more predictable than other repair and restoration methods. Dental implant treatment by Implantologist has a track record of reliable, long-term successful outcomes and is often considered “more predictable” than other treatments to repair or replace missing teeth, including bridgework, removable appliances and retreatment of failing root canal (endodontic) therapy.
• Bone loss begins the moment you lose a natural tooth. In the first year following the loss of a tooth, your jaw bone can recede almost one quarter of an inch. Without the support of your teeth and facial bones, your face will begin to look prematurely aged. Tooth replacement with dental implants helps prevent bone loss allowing you to maintain a more youthful appearance.
• Implants Are the Best Way to Replace Missing Teeth
• From a single tooth to a whole mouth, we believe that implants are the best solution for the replacement of missing teeth.
• Implants Are the Best Way to Replace Missing Teeth
Dental Implants: Advantages
This procedure is a team effort between you and your dentist. Your dentist will consult with you to determine where and how your implant should be placed. Depending on your specific condition and the type of implant chosen, your periodontist will create a treatment plan tailored to meet your needs.
• Replacing a Single Tooth If you are missing a single tooth, one implant and a crown can replace it.
• Replacing Several Teeth If you are missing several teeth, implant-supported bridges can replace them.
• Replacing All of Your Teeth If you are missing all of your teeth, an implant-supported
• Implants Prevent Bone Loss And Premature Aging
• From a single tooth to a whole mouth, we believe that implants are the best solution for the replacement of missing teeth.
| Implant Retained Dentures | Dentures Without Implants |
|---|---|
| State-of-the-art tooth replacement. Implants are a long-lasting investment | Replaces basic chewing function. Most affordable tooth replacement option in short-term. |
Implants paired with a denture or single crown provide a proper fitting solution that maintains healthy bone. |
Due to bone loss, dentures will need to be replaced periodically for a proper fit. |
Preserves bone quantity and quality. |
Bone quantity shrinks and integrity continues to degrade. |
Provides firm support of facial structures. (Jaw, lips and cheeks) to maintain a more youthful appearance. |
Facial structures decrease over time and can cause the medical issues associated with bone loss over time. |
Functions most like your own teeth so you can eat foods you like. |
Dentures may float or move on the gums limiting the ability to eat some foods |
Strong and stable – keeps denture securely in place. |
Dentures may slip and move, especially on the lower jaw, creating sore spots in the mouth. |
No need for denture creams or adhesives |
Denture creams or adhesives often needed. |
Comparison of Two/Three Piece & Single Piece Dental Implants
| Single Piece Implants | Two Piece Implants | |
|---|---|---|
| Implant Placement Procedures | Single sitting surgical procedure and very often flapless (no open surgical procedures are necessary). Implant procedures are less time consuming than that required r bridgework. |
Very often more complex surgical procedures are necessary, spread over 2 or 3 sittings in a period of 3-6 months (Implant placement, Healing Screw placement & Abutment Placement) |
Loading |
Immediate Loading – ie patient can be given the crown(s) / bridge(s) the very next day |
Delayed Loading – very often a waiting period of minimum of 3 months is necessary before loading the implants with prosthesis |
Prosthodontic Procedures |
Conventional impressions of the implants can be made just as is the case with conventional bridgework. Less time consuming. |
Requires more complex procedures and is more time consuming. |
Sizes & Designs |
A wide range of sizes and designs are available suiting various bone types and measurements. The designs even help avoid bone augmentation and sinus lifts. |
Limited sizes and designs are available thereby limiting their application |
Cost |
These work out a lot more cost effective in comparison with two/three piece implants |
Expensive – with respect to the costs of the implants as well as the time taken for multiple procedures |
From the patient’s point of view |
Less complex placement procedure, less number of sittings and crown(s) & bridges can be cemented in a day or two… more or less like that of a conventional bridgework & costs are comparable with that of conventional bridgework |
More complex placement procedure involving two or more surgical phases. Crowns / bridges are cemented only after 3 months after the healing phase. Much more expensive than the conventional bridgework. |
Long term maintenance |
Being a single piece, the strength provided by the implant is excellent and there is no separate root portion and abutment portion. Maintenance is very simple… maintenance is just the same as that of conventional bridgework |
Being two piece, the relation between the root portion and the abutment portion can present problems. Studies have proved that two piece implants experience higher mechanical stress under oblique loading. Maintenance of these implants are more complex… very often screws (when used) are to be tightened at periodic intervals as there will be micro-movement between the implant and the abutment. |
Single piece implants: Advantages
Single Piece Implants are cost-effective when compared to conventional implants, as they eliminate the need for cover screws, healing abutments, subsequent separate implant attachments or separate implant abutments.
They are time effective as they eliminate the need for second stage surgery, mucosal healing period, and they also decrease patient exposure to additional unnecessary pain and discomfort.
They provide fast, painless replacement of missed teeth. They are cost effective.
Single piece Implants are less invasive and are either: immediately loaded in case of good bone quality, or progressively loaded in case of less than ideal bone quality.
They are usually designed with dense v shaped or reverse buttress threads, acid etched sand blasted surfaces, to achieve high primary stability when loaded immediately, and with thick smooth collar for soft tissue integration.
They are available in very narrow diameters so can be used in thin ridge areas, especially in patients who cannot afford the cost of bone augmentation procedures. Even if the bone is very small, single piece Implants can be used. They can be used in small gaps to replace missed anterior teeth or premolars where standard diameter implants cannot be installed.
They can be used in Diabetics and Smokers too.