Dental Implants
Missing or damaged teeth? You will be amazed to know how dental implants at Family Dentist Dental Clinic, can make a difference
Ignoring the problem of missing teeth doesn’t help. It affects your facial aesthetics, difficulty in chewing, speech issues, bite irregularities, bone loss and has many such other complications on your oral and overall health.
There are many tooth replacement options and as you analyse those options, you will learn why dental implants are today’s topmost solution to the problem of failing or lost teeth.
What are dental implants?
Dental implants are the gold standard for permanently replacing missing teeth or teeth that are badly decayed or damaged. Dental implants are made up of biocompatible titanium that replaces your natural tooth’s anchoring roots.
Understand clearly, when you choose dental implants, you are replacing your tooth roots with tooth posts made up of metal. These are like screws for artificial teeth which look like real teeth.
How are the dental implants placed?
The procedure of placing implants will depend on the implant that you need and the condition of your jaw bone. You may have to undergo certain dental procedures to prepare your jaw bone to heal properly around the implant.
Our dentist will first do a comprehensive clinical examination to determine your jaw bone condition and the best dental implant procedure.
This involves X rays, medical history, blood reports and radiographic evaluation including radiographs and CBCT records of desired areas. And depending on your condition, you may ask to take antibiotics before the procedure to avoid infection
In case if you have remaining tooth that needs replacing, it will be removed before the dental implant procedure.
The implant is inserted into your jaw bone. Your jaw bone needs to be very strong to protect the implant as there is a lot of pressure when you chew or eat. After the implant is added to your jaw bone, it will begin to grow around the implant and later the implant becomes a part of your natural gum line.
Once your implant is stable, our dentist will place an abutment on the top of the implant. This will connect the implant with the crown. It needs to be tightened well so it stays in place when you eat.
Once the gums are healed our dentist will make an artificial tooth or crown and will add it to the abutment to give you a naturally looking tooth.
