Dental Implants

Dental implants offer one of the most effective and long lasting ways to replace one or more missing teeth, providing a fixed alternative to removable dentures. They are made from titanium or titanium alloy; after many years of research have shown to be materials to be well tolerated by bone.

These titanium posts are surgically placed in the jawbone to act just like tooth root and provide a firm foundation for a crown or bridge.

Benefits

• Unlike ill-fitting dentures, which can have a tendency to move around uncomfortably in your mouth, implants stay firmly in place.
• Implants help protect the jawbone by keeping it stimulated and they prevent existing teeth from moving around.
• They eliminate the speaking and chewing problems that may be caused by missing teeth or ill-fitting dentures.
• They can provide a significant boost to your confidence by restoring your smile.

Our dental implant treatment is very successful, with a positive and predictable outcome being as high as 95% but very occasionally a dental implant can fail to integrate into the bone – if this happens we will place a new implant will be placed free of charge.

We do always recommend that patients who smoke stop smoking during treatment, if not permanently if possible.

Treatment Steps

Step 1 – We carry out a full assessment of your general health, how your teeth fit together, your oral health and the density of your jaw bone. If we discover you have insufficient bone volume, you may need a grafting procedure to allow for the successful placement of implants.
Step 2 – The titanium posts are placed in the bone under a local anaesthetic using a relatively simple surgical procedure.
Step 3 – Titanium is very well tolerated by the body, so over a few months the implants will bond with the bone – a process known as osseo-integration.
Step 4 – Once settled in and fully healed, we can fit replacement teeth to the now firmly positioned implants.