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Missing teeth significantly affect the psychological, health, and social elements of a person’s life. If you lose a tooth, you sometimes become self-conscious and avoid smiling or speaking in public, which affects your social life. You may also find it challenging to chew various foods, putting your health at risk.
At Perio & Implant Center of Monterey Bay and Silicon Valley, a dental implant specialist in Sunnyvale, CA, knows the solution to your problem; dental implant. Dental implants will replace your missing teeth with feeling and looking like natural teeth. Contact them today to discuss your treatment process and options.
What is Dental Implant?
Dental Implant is a replacement for a missing tooth root. It is considered small petal posts composed of titanium that supports dental crowns, bridges, or implant-supported dentures. Dental implants do not rely on the strength of your natural teeth for support. Instead, a dental specialist inserts them into tiny perforations in your gum line. Your jaw bone forms around each implant after treatment, bonding them in place. This eliminates the need for sticky or dirty chemicals to keep them in place. Dental implants also look and feel like your natural teeth. Brushing, flossing, and visiting the dentist frequently is all that is required.
Types of Dental Implants
There are two main recommendable types of dental implants. They are categorized depending on the jawbone shape, size, and health. These main categories of the implant are: endosteal and subperiosteal.
Endosteal Implants
These implants are the most widely used currently. They are titanium cylinders or broad blades surgically placed into your jawbone where missing teeth are located. Surgeons usually wait 4-6 weeks for your bone to osseointegrate with the implant before fitting the connecting component to which your replacement teeth will be linked into the screw or blade.
Subperiosteal Implants
They rest under your gum tissue and on the top of the jawbone. These implants are recommended in case of bone loss in your jaw, and the health of your jaw cannot withhold the surgical placement of metals used in endosteal implants.
What is the Procedure of Dental Implants?
The first step is making a plan. You meet with the dentist where they plan on the implant depending on the health of your jawbone. The whole process involves three phases:
- Placing the implant-you undergo surgery so that the implant can be inserted in your jaw. It is then covered with gum tissue and penetrates the jawbone for 3-6 months.
- Attaching the post- your dentist then attaches a post to the implant, and the gum tissue is allowed to grow all around it. There are cases where the implant and the post are inserted simultaneously.
- Crown attachment-the dentist finalizes by attaching a customized crown to the implant post.
Why Dental implants? Is it beneficial?
Dental implants have many benefits, including the following:
- They are natural-looking and feeling
- They do not slide as compared to dentures-they improve speech
- They are not associated with any discomfort
- They enhance hygiene for they are cleaned just like natural teeth
- Dental implants restore self-awareness and confidence
- They make eating easier
- Dental implants improve oral health
Can Anyone Get Dental implants?
Anyone with healthy gums and enough bone to hold the implant can undergo a dental implant. However, implants are not suitable for everyone. Pregnant women and people with chronic diseases, children whose jaws are under development, and people who grind their teeth are not suitable for dental implants.
Talk to a Dental Implant Specialist Today?
Have you lost one or more of your teeth? Do you have spaces between your teeth? Are you feeling uncomfortable before people to the extent that you cannot smile or eat in public? It is high time that you should find a solution to your problem. Dental Implant is all you need to enjoy life again and connect with your innermost being. Contact Perio & Implant Center of Monterey Bay and Silicon Valley to discover more about dental implants.
