Personalized Dental Implants for Tooth Replacement in San Francisco, CA
What Are Dental Implants?
Dental implants are a way of replacing a missing tooth or teeth. They act as substitute tooth roots which are then connected to single crowns, bridges, partial and full dentures to help support, stabilize, and retain them.
What Are The Benefits Of Dental Implants?
Dental implants allow the replacement of teeth without treating or drilling on our own natural teeth that do not need treatment. Because of this, they are considered a more conservative treatment when replacing missing teeth. Also, dental implants, like natural teeth, stop continued jawbone loss — 25% in the first year, 40 to 60% in 3 to 5 years, and about 1% every year thereafter — after a tooth is lost.
What Are The Benefits Of Dental Implants?
Are you missing a single tooth? In the past, the dentist had to grind two adjacent teeth, however perfect and healthy, to support a partial denture. This caused irrevocable damage to the supporting teeth and made it easy for contaminates to accumulate in the space between the denture and the gums, promoting Gingivitis, deterioration of the bone around the teeth, and recession of the gums. All of this resulted in an unattractive appearance and eventually the loss of the adjacent teeth. MIS dental implant technology is the solution. The screw is inserted into the bone under local anesthesia. Within a few months, this initial implant will become a firm foundation set naturally in position, replacing the natural root. The space of the missing tooth is filled by a temporary crown. The permanent crown is completed again by a truly simple process. The size and distance are measured and the color of the natural teeth is examined in order to create a perfect match with the new crown. The crown is secured into the implant using a screw or special cement, using no anesthesia and causing no pain. The implant does not damage any of the other teeth, plus it feels and looks like a truly integral part of the mouth.
Finally, dental implants allow us to keep teeth separated so that only the teeth needing work are treated. Everything we do in dentistry may need to be reworked in the future. If teeth are connected together, then even if some of the parts are not defective they will all need to be replaced if connected together, resulting in more complex treatment at a higher cost.
What Is The Success Rate Of Dental Implants?
Studies show that dental implants have a success rate from the mid to high 90% after five years. Many things can influence this from your general health and lifestyle to the complexity of the required treatment needed to insert the dental implant.
Replacing teeth and restoring smiles with dental implants
Dental implants are titanium roots that are replaced in the jawbone to resemble a tooth or group of teeth. A screw is inserted through the gums and into the jawbone. A porcelain crown is then attached to the screw to become the new tooth or teeth. They can be used to support dental prosthesis, including crowns, dentures, and bridges. Today’s treatments are so natural looking, no one will know you had surgery. There is approximately a 95 percent success rate for all implants. With modern advances in dentistry, some implants can be restored immediately with lifelike all-porcelain crowns. For more details, ask your dentist.
Are Dental Implants Worth The Cost?
We expect our investment in dental care to provide that same quality of life that natural healthy teeth do. Dental implants fulfill this by being most like our own natural teeth in the way they look, feel, and function. Since dental implants offer the most value, they are worth more compared to bridges, dentures, and partial dentures. But, just as with your own teeth, they are susceptible to their own form of gum disease and to the detrimental affects of a stressful bite.
