Dental implants
Who can have dental implants?
Dental implants are perfect whether you’ve lost one tooth, several or all of your teeth.
We’ve treated people who have had teeth knocked out in a fall, a road collision, or on the sports pitch. We’ve treated people with gaps in their smile due to the legacy of an extraction-happy dentist, and even those who have broken off a tooth when trying to undo a bottle cap with their teeth. Please don’t do that! (But if you have, we’ll help.) And we’ve restored beautiful smiles to those who’ve suffered from gum disease or poor oral health.
Dental implant surgery at Clinic95
Below, we’ve explained a little about exactly what dental implants are and how they work.
However, this surgery is totally bespoke. No two patients are the same.
So it’s impossible to describe exactly how implants might work for you. There are many ways that we can approach your own personal needs.
We’ll take into consideration your own feelings about your smile and your oral health. We’ll want to know about how your teeth or gaps affect your everyday life. What eating is like, how you feel about smiling. And we’ll talk about the pain of missing teeth, too.
We’ll assess your oral health, taking detailed information about your teeth, gums, jaw bone and bite, as well as assessing your overall health.
We’ll also take into account that you'll want to get your new smile as soon as possible. But you’ll be given the luxury of time – as much as you need. Ask as many questions as you wish, visit as often as you want; come and have a cup of tea and a chat. Together, we’ll explore all your options and find a way to get you the best possible smile.
It’s all very personal and friendly. Everyone here, from our reception staff to our surgical team, will get to know you well, and you them.
So what are dental implants?
An implant is a hollow titanium screw that is secured into your jaw bone.
A small peg or ‘abutment’ is then screwed into the implant.
And a crown is fitted onto that.
This gives you a brand new tooth that is fixed – it won’t move. It’ll function like a real tooth and it has the normal life expectancy of a real tooth, too.
Maria says: "It’s not as gross as it sounds. Personally, what I think is gross, is a lifetime of keeping your teeth in a glass by the bed at night…"
We’ve been offering implants since 1996 and in that time have placed (and restored) over 4,000 of them.
However, since then, huge innovations have taken place in the world of implantology, that you can benefit from.
When we first started out, placing implants was a different process.
First, we’d fit just the implant – the little screw – into the jaw. And then you’d have to wait for the surrounding bone to grow around it – a process called osseointegration – which takes around six months. During this time you’d be fitted with a denture or temporary bridge to cover the gap(s), but these can come with all the usual problems of moving, and making eating troublesome.
However, since 2011, we’ve offered a system of placing implants that means we can affix your new teeth to the implant on the same day. It’s called Fast & Fixed, and we’ve completed over 160 cases.
Click here to read the case study of our very first Fast & Fixed patient Janice.
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