What Exactly Is
Dental Implants Treatment?
The dental implant process takes place over several months. The process involves a dental surgeon, such as a periodontist or an oral surgeon, and your dentist. Most surgical procedures are quick (under an hour) and involve numbing with local anesthesia (similar to what you’d get for other dental work).
Dental Implants Procedures
1. Tooth extraction: First, the problem tooth is removed by the dental surgeon. Often times, a bone graft and membrane are placed at the time of extraction to ensure that you’ll have enough bone at the time the implant is placed.
2. Implanting: Your dental surgeon places the dental implant in the area where your tooth is missing after the area has healed for around three months. The procedure involves a few drills similar to having a filling done. The implant generally takes an additional three months to heal.
3. Temporary teeth: A temporary tooth may be placed on the implant at the time the implant is inserted or once it has healed.
4. Permanent teeth or dentures: Your dentist will take molds of your teeth or scan your mouth and send the models or scan to a dental lab. You will return a few weeks later for the permanent abutment (connector piece) and tooth to be placed on the implant.
Dental implants look and feel like your own teeth. And because they are designed to fuse with bone, they become permanent.
Dental implants don’t require reducing other teeth, as a tooth-supported bridge does. Because nearby teeth are not altered to support the implant, more of your own teeth are left intact, improving long-term oral health. Individual implants also allow easier access between teeth, improving oral hygiene.
Success rates of dental implants vary, depending on where in the jaw the implants are placed but, in general, dental implants have a success rate of up to 99%. With proper care (see below), implants can last a lifetime.
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FAQs(Frequently Asked Questions)
Are implants safe and how long will they last?
Implants are a safe, well-established treatment. It’s probably true to say that implants, much like natural teeth, will last for as long as you care for them.
How well you look after your implants – and whether you go for your regular maintenance appointments – will have the biggest impact on how long they will last.
If you don’t look after your implants they will develop a coating similar to what you get on neglected natural teeth. Left untreated, this can lead to gum infection, bleeding, soreness and general discomfort. You could get all these problems with natural teeth.
If your implants are well looked after, and if the bone they are fitted to is strong and healthy, you can expect them to last for many years. However, just as with other surgical implants (such as a hip replacement) there is no lifetime guarantee.
I have some of my own teeth. Can I still have implants?
Yes. You can have any number of teeth replaced with implants – from one single tooth to a complete set.
Can implants always be used to replace missing teeth?
It depends on the condition of the bone in your jaw. Your dentist will arrange for a number of special tests to find out the amount of bone still there. If there is not enough, or if it isn’t healthy enough, it may not be possible to place implants without grafting bone into the area first.
Do implants hurt?
Placing an implant is often easier than taking a tooth out and is usually done using a simple local anaesthetic. You will not feel any pain at the time but, just like after an extraction, you may feel some discomfort during the week after the surgery.
Sometimes your dentist might give you a sedative if you are very nervous or if the case is a complicated one. General anesthetics are rarely used for implants and are generally only used for very complicated cases.
Where does this treatment can done?
Talk to your dentist. They may already carry out some or all of this type of treatment, and will give you the advice you need. Or they may refer you to an experienced ‘implantologist’ for assessment and treatment.
Remember to ask:
- exactly what treatment is proposed
- what experience the dentist has in this work
- the total cost of the treatment, and
- What the alternatives are.
Make sure you get a treatment plan, along with an estimate, and ask if a guarantee is included for your treatment.
If you are unhappy with any of the answers you get, then do ask for a second opinion. You will be spending a lot of time, effort and money, so you must be sure that you know what you are getting at the end of the treatment.
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