Dental Implants
A dental implant is kind of screw made from the biocompatible material known as titanium. It is placed entirely in the jaw bone at missing tooth and designed to function as the root of a tooth. Dental implant helps to replace a single or multiple missing teeth.
The top piece of the implant might be a single tooth, a bridge to replace multiple teeth, or a component designed to improve a denture or partial denture.
At Denta Care Dental Clinic, Churu, our dentist examines the patient and discusses the treatment procedure. The implant can be placed immediately after the tooth extraction or you need to wait for few months for the healing of extracted site.
Benefits of Dental Implants
Dental implants are now the gold standard in replacing the missing teeth and for a variety of good reasons:
Dental implants are now the gold standard in replacing the missing teeth and for a variety of good reasons:
- Dental implants do not interfere with the adjacent teeth.
- Dental implant act as a separate tooth, while bridge engages adjacent teeth and may cause difficulties in future such as root canal treatment, cavities, fractures and many other teeth related problems.
- It functions like natural teeth and you can brush and floss.
- Long lasting without any future complications.
- Prevents bone loss and tooth movement
- The versatility of implants is, it can be placed in multiples and are able to support bridges to maximize the number of teeth replaced.
- The tooth piece of the implant can be replaced throughout the patient’s life.
Are you the right candidate for Dental Implant?
Dental implant treatment is trending nowadays. We usually hear a question from our patients, are they a candidate for dental implants? The answer is yes if you have one or multiple missing teeth, you wear a denture, losing your existing teeth because of age or any other condition.
However, some of the medical situations or habits don’t allow to go for the Dental Implant treatment such as:
- Smokers or Tobacco users
- Diabetic patients
- Pregnant women
- Young patients
- Immune compromised patients
- Steroid users
- Bone disorders
- Kidney problem
Treatment Time For Dental Implant
The overall time required for the procedure depends on the patient, situations and it will be analyzed during your consultation with Dr. Akshay Sharma. After the placement of a dental implant, bone healing takes approximately 3-6 months depending on age, gender, any infection present, health etc. So that, from the day when the implant is placed and to have tooth attach to it require at last 4 months.
In some cases, you can get an implant placed just after the extraction which is common for anterior tooth where the bite force is weaker and is safe for the implant. For a patient who is looking for complete teeth replacement, the remaining teeth to be extracted prior to implant placement because 3-4 months require healing support an implant.
In such cases, time requires completing the procedure is near about 8-10 months. This varies depending on the scenario, intraoral examinations, and bites determination of an individual.
Do Dental Implant Hurt?
For any patient dental implant procedure seems to be painful. However, Dental implant placement is a simple and easy process performed by our dental professionals under general anesthesia. With the help of IV Sedation, the whole procedure makes the stress-free experience and prescribes medications for first 48 hours. We assure to make every procedure as comfortable as possible.l