What are dental implants?
Dental implants are the standard care for replacing missing teeth. These titanium posts or frames are surgically inserted into your jawbone to hold artificial teeth.
You can get an implant for a single tooth. If you have several missing teeth your implants can be customized to hold a fixed bridge.
Dental implants can be used to hold removable dentures in place (thus eliminating the hassle of denture adhesives) or permanently bolt the dentures
Why are dental implants important?
Daily chewing and biting helps stimulate the periodontal complex, which prompt the alveolar bone to remodel and rebuild. Without the stimulation, the bone begins to deteriorate. You can lose up to 25% of your bone width in the first years after you’ve lost your tooth. Eventually, gum tissue and the alveolus bones begin to weaken too.
Once your gum and bones are affected, you’re at risk for losing even more teeth and experiencing much more serious problems: difficulty eating and chewing, bite collapse, and change in facial shape. Dental implants can prevent these problems from the beginning.
Same day dental implants
Through our same-day implant technique, patients receive both their implants and crown restorations within 24 hours or less.
Immediate loading refers to the process where the implanted body is promptly restored with an implant crown. This restoration occurs immediately following implant insertion. The implant can be positioned within an existing tooth gap or within a freshly extracted site, if required.
In practice, immediate restoration of newly placed implants is most beneficial in the aesthetic zone, particularly for front teeth like incisors, canines, and premolars. This approach ensures that patients do not exhibit visible tooth gaps when smiling, which is especially crucial when extractions are necessary.
For posterior molar teeth, immediate restoration does not typically offer significant advantages. Therefore, a conservative approach of restoring the implant after a healing period of several weeks is often preferred in these areas.
The main drawback of immediate restoration of implants is that patients are typically advised not to eat on them for several weeks until the implant body has fully fused (osseointegrated) with the surrounding bone. Any tooth contact with the new implant restoration should be avoided to ensure proper healing. Therefore, a temporary, less durable implant crown is often used initially, to be replaced with a permanent, highly aesthetic one after a healing period, usually around 12 weeks.