Dental Implants
Dental Implants are a safe, medically proven, esthetic alternative to traditional crowns,
Bridgework and dentures because implant restoration looks and feels more like natural teeth. More over they offer new levels of comfort, security and confidence over traditional treatments. For more than two decades, dental implants have been helping to provide quality life to patients with restorative needs.
A dental implant is a small anchor made of titanium that is inserted into the jawbone to take the place of your missing tooth root. After osseo - integration (when the surrounding bone has healed to the implant), a replacement tooth is secured to the top of the implant. This new tooth looks feels and performs similar to your natural teeth.
Who need Dental Implants
Dental implant patients are from all ages, all who lose their teeth due to injury, defects, disease or decay. They have very good optins of dental implants. Any bosy who lost there tooth is the candidate for dental implants, its very important factor that you must have good health. There are certain health conditions that can effect like diabetes, cancer, radiation to the jaws, smoking, alcoholism, or uncontrolled periodontal (gum) disease may affect whether dental implants will fuse to your bone. Its impotant let your dentist know all your medical conditions (past ans present)
How Dental Implantsworks
The teeth you implant will feel and functions just like your natural teeth. You can brush and floss them, scaling and polishing and even you can visit your dentist regulaly as you did earlier. Overall means same as you would to care for a natural tooth. After deciding of dental implants, there are several steps involved:-
- Dental Implant is cylindrical and tapered post made of titanium, is placed surgically into the jawbone.
- When you heal, your dental implant will fuse with natural jawbone growing together to form a strong and long-lasting foundation for your replacement teeth.
- Once implant bonds with jawbone, a small connector called an abutment is placed on top of the dental implant to connect the implant to the replacement tooth or teeth.
- An individual tooth, an implant-supported bridge or dentures containing multiple teeth are then attached to the abutment.
