What are Dental Implants?

Dental Implants are a comfortable, natural-looking alternative to natural teeth and not only preserve the bone tissue, they also act and look like natural teeth allowing you to eat and speak clearly. Dental Implants can be used to replace one or many broken or missing teeth.

Dental implants are the best alternative to natural teeth, because they replace both the root and the body of the tooth. An implant consists of two parts: a titanium steel peg that is surgically implanted into the jaw, and a porcelain crown which sits on top of the peg and effectively replaces the tooth. If you are missing multiple teeth, you don’t necessarily have to get one peg implanted for every tooth. Instead, you can replace multiple teeth with just a couple of pegs using implant-supported partial or complete dentures.

During your consultation, our doctors will evaluate your mouth and determine the best possible dental implant procedure to meet your needs. Implants are a viable option for most patients and have even been performed on patients with diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.

Reasons for Dental Implants:

• replace missing teeth
• eliminate the need for dentures
• prevent bone loss that occurs after a tooth is lost
• prevent the shaving down of healthy teeth for a bridge
• provide patients with the confidence of real teeth
• allow patients to eat all the foods they enjoy

Why choose dental implants?

Dental Implants offer numerous benefits over other treatments for replacing missing teeth.

Dental implants are the only treatment that actually arrest bone loss in the jaw. When a tooth’s root is lost, a process of bone resorption starts to occur immediately because the bone in the area no longer has any stimulation. When we place a dental implant the bone actually bonds with the titanium through the process of osseointegration. Once this happens there is no more danger of bone loss or deformation.