Wear a Confident Smile with Dental Implants
The closest to healthy, natural teeth are dental implants. You can live your every-day activity without worrying about your teeth, as you like – comfy, smile, laugh, talk, kiss or enjoy.
Put dental implants in the shape of screws like artificial roots of tooths. Dental implants in your jawbone link to your natural bone. They are a robust basis, called crowns, to support one or more artificial teeth.
On top of the dental implant is a connector known as an abutment, which holds and supports your crowns. The crowns are tailored to suit your mouth and natural teeth.
Over 30 years of successful application of modern dental implants, it has become way more popular today. They are the strongest available devices to enable replacement of teeth to feel, look and operate naturally, and even better.
What are the types of implants?
There are two main types of implants, endosteal and subperiosteal, recommended by the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. The best-suited implant process for you depends on the size, form and health of your jawbone. Your dentist can provide the best possible advice.
What are the implants for Endosteal?
Titanium cylinders (screws) or blades (wide, flat metal) are the endosteal implants that are inserted into the jawbone in the teeth. According to the American Academy of Periodontology, they are the most used implants.
Surgeons usually allow your bone to osseo-integrate into the implant about 4-6 weeks before you put an abutment (which connects your new teeth) into the screw or blade. It may sound like long waiting, but do not worry, as you normally do during the process, you can still eat, drink, and talk.
What are the implants of the subperiosteal?
Up on the jawbone and under your gum tissue rest subperiotheal implants. Over time, they attach to your jawbone through osseointegration. There are some reasons why your dentist may recommend them in the most common endosteal implants. The shape or health of the jaw might not support the operating insert of the metal needed by endosteal implants. You may experience bone loss in your jaw.
If subperiosteal implants are determined to be the best option for you, there are two procedures your oral surgeon will perform. During the first operation, your tube is opened near the dental loss area so that your jawbone can be made of a mold. Sutures are then utilized for closing the incision, when the implant is placed on the bone, until the second procedure.
The usage of these implants has been decreasing and further improved in imaging, bone grafting and implant design. However, there are still circumstances under which the most viable option for you can be this procedure:
Your jawbone will not support endosteal implants naturally
You want a faster process of bone grafting than other procedures.
You want a faster treatment.
Five dental implant facts:
Ancient dental implants were traced back to around 600 AD and hammered tooth-like shells into Mayan women's jaws.
The only way to preserve the natural bone is through dental implants, which help to stimulate bone growth.
The AAID – American Academy of Implantology – was established in 1951 to share knowledge in implantology by a small group of dentists who successfully placed dental implants. AAID is the world's first professional dentistry implant organization.
P.I. Branemark, a Swedish orthopaedic surgeon, found in 1952 that Titanium fuse with bone naturally
In the United States, 3 million people have implants, an annual increase of 500,000.
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