Benefits of Dental Implants Over Alternative Treatments in Preston?

If you are missing one or more teeth and would like to restore your ability to smile, speak and eat with comfort and confidence, then dental implants may be right for you. Dental implants can replace missing teeth, support a fixed bridge and eliminate the need for a removable partial denture or anchor a full denture. 

Innovations in tooth implant materials and techniques continue to improve the success rate of titanium implants. More and more patients are enjoying the benefits of having dental implants.

There are several advantages to dental implants, including:

Improved Appearance. Dental implants look and feel like your own teeth. And because they are designed to fuse with bone, they become permanent.

Improved speech. With poor-fitting dentures, the teeth slip within the mouth causing you to mumble or slur your words.

Improved comfort. Because implant retained restorations become part of you, they eliminate the discomfort of acrylic dentures.

Improved Chewing and easier eating. Sliding dentures can make chewing difficult. Dental implants function like your own teeth, allowing you to eat food with confidence and without pain.

Improved confidence. Dental implants can give you back your smile and help you feel better about yourself.

Improved oral and general health. Dental implants don't require reducing other teeth, as a tooth-supported bridge does. Because nearby teeth are not altered to support the implant, more of your own teeth are left intact, improving long-standing dental health.

Convenience. Removable dentures are just that; removable and a denture , designed to be a basic replacement for missing teeth and nothing else whereas dental implants eliminate the embarrassing inconvenience of removing dentures, as well as the need for messy adhesives to keep them in place.

Your Implant Dentist in Preston can help you decide if a dental implant is right for you. He will review your medical and dental histories, and thoroughly examine your teeth, gums and bite. X-rays and models will be taken and analysed. Risks and benefits of available treatment options will be discussed.

The placement of dental implants requires special knowledge, training, skills and facilities. Only experienced, qualified and accredited implant dentists with advanced knowledge and training in surgery of the mouth, face, and jaws, and are appropriately skilled at inserting implants. 

Immediate Dental Implants

  

If you know you are about to lose a tooth, or if you have suddenly lost a tooth, there may be a chance that you can get your tooth replaced with an ‘immediate’ dental implant.

It may well be possible to put an implant tooth in immediately. You should act quickly though: it only takes a couple of days for the gum to grow down into the socket and this will make it difficult to put an immediate implant in place.

There are two key conditions that have to be met to make an immediate implant possible:

The bone around the failing tooth must be intact;

The gum and surrounding area must be infection free.

If both these conditions are met, then it is possible to carefully extract the root and immediately put an implant directly into the tooth socket.

If the dental implant is adequately secure in the bone, the titanium post can be put in place and a temporary crown on top. This treatment means that the patient can literally come to the clinic with a failed tooth and leave a short while later with a new implant tooth in place.

The temporary teeth look very natural and stay securely in place until the implant has healed sufficiently to put the permanent crown in place.

An immediate tooth implant can save months of waiting for your new tooth. It will reduce the number of visits you need to make to the surgery, and the money you have to spend on preparation and surgery time.

Extensive experience with immediate dental implants shown there is very little discomfort associated with this procedure, with some patients reporting feeling no pain at all during the implant surgery. They have also found the implant is fully functioning almost immediately.

In addition, patients report that their family and friends do not notice the difference, because their new replacement teeth have a natural look. This advanced dental technique allows the implant to lock in place, giving it a stronger, more permanent hold than any other implant procedure.