Dental Implant
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Dental implants are used to replace a missing tooth or missing teeth, lost due to an accident or injury, dental disease, or other traumatic event. A dental implant is an artificial tooth root that is placed into your jaw, to hold a replacement tooth or teeth. They are natural looking and feeling, stable, extremely strong, and when you turn to your local implant dentist in they are also very affordable.
During the last 20 years, dental implants have become a desirable alternative to other methods of replacing missing teeth. Excellent success rates and a range of available options give dentists a variety of new ways to treat and replace lost teeth.
Your dentist can evaluate your case and tell you if you are a candidate for dental implants. Structurally, a dental implant is a titanium-based cylinder that replaces the missing tooth root. After a period of time, other parts are placed on the implant to enable your dentist to eventually place a crown (cap) on the implant. Implants can also be used to support full or partial dentures, dramatically improving denture retention and stability.
Most patients with adequate bone mass can have implants, although it varies among individuals. Typically an x-ray and CT-scan are performed to determine if you have enough bone to place the implant, as well as to verify the size and kind of implant that should be placed.
Benefits of Dental Implants
1. Better esthetics :
Since implants are placed in the gum similar to the way a natural tooth is supported, they offer a more realistic and natural look compared to other alternatives.
2. Reduction of bone resorption :
When a tooth is lost, the supporting bone structure gradually recedes. Placing an implant in that empty space significantly reduces the speed of bone resorption and provides stability for this valuable tissue.
3. Retention :
Patients who have experienced removable full or partial dentures know that keeping their dentures in place is always a challenge. Dental implants offer a great improvement to denture retention for all patients. In some cases the denture can be secured to a group of implants with special screws that stabilize the denture completely.
4. Preserving natural tooth structure:
Often the preferred method of replacing a single missing tooth is a bridge. Bridges require extra preparation for the surrounding teeth to ultimately connect 3 or more teeth. This negatively impacts your health by making the task of retaining your teeth more difficult and by often requiring the destruction of existing tooth structure to create room for the new bridge. An implant is mostly an independent unit and does not negatively affect the adjacent teeth.
5. No need to take support of Other Teeth :
Implant acts as a root of tooth so It can bare all chewing forces and transfer them into the bone just like natural tooth. This does not happen in Bridge. In bridge the tooth that a dentist is going to replace, doesn’thave root part, in fact that tooth transfer all forces to other adjacent teeth. This results in extra forces to adjacent teeth.
Implant Availibility
There are multiple companies available for Oral Implants with various sizes. Implantologist decides proper shape and size of implant after clinical and Radiographical examination (RVG, OPG OR SCAN).
Indication of Dental Implants
1.For single tooth replacement
2.Two or more than two teeth
3.Full mouth Implant
4.Full mouth implant with removable denture
5.Full mouth implant with fixed denture
Our Doctor’s
Dr. Falgun Acharya is a registered specialist in dental implants and periodontic care.
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