What Are Dental Implants?

Dental Implants

What Are Dental Implants?

Dental implants offer many advantages over traditional tooth replacement procedures. Gone are the days when patients were forced to simply wear unsightly or uncomfortable caps, crowns or dentures. Often insecure and artificial looking, these solutions left people unable to talk and eat with confidence. Dental implants to minimize the risks associated with crowns and caps, while maximizing the rewards of producing natural, healthy and most of all safer teeth that let recipients smile with conviction.

Dental implants are essentially artificial teeth that are placed within the jaw. Although they are generally more aesthetically pleasing that the alternatives like crowns or dentures, the real reason why many people are turning to dental implants to replace missing teeth down to safety. Implants are a safer, more tooth-friendly procedure that has little or no adverse effect on adjacent teeth or gums.

When a patient chooses to replace a bridge in support of missing or expired teeth, adjacent teeth are generally adapted to support the procedure. Over time this leads to gum and dental erosion. With implants, the replacement tooth looks virtually identical to the real work, and the patient suffers nothing in terms of later tooth decay.

Today there are two dental implant procedures that most periodontists employ:

Endo Steal is the most usual procedure. There are various types of screws, cylinders or blades are selected for insertion directly into the jawbone, with each implant holding one or more prosthetic teeth.

Subperiosteal is an alternative that is less often used for patients who are unable to wear dentures and have a minimum height of the bone. The implants are placed at the top of the jaw with the metal framework inserted into gums.

Dental implants have a very high success rate, but usually a patient who is in good general health. Because we have to deal with invasive surgery, candidates who experience advanced gum disease or weak jaw bones may not be approved for the procedure. But for those who do qualify, they can rely on healthy, natural looking smile that is, provided that they continue with good dental hygiene, last for years to come.

Locations offering dental implant surgery are located all across the country, particularly in the Northeast (New York, New Jersey and Boston), Nevada (Las Vegas and Summerlin), Los Angeles and various locations in Canada.

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