Know More about Implant Dental Surgery

Implant dental surgery is a procedure that replaces damaged or missing teeth with artificial ones that look and function much like real ones. Implant dental surgery can offer a welcome alternative to ill-fitting dentures or bridgework. The major benefit from implants is solid support for your new teeth; a process that requires the bone to heal tightly and fuse around the implant. Because this healing requires time, the process can take many months.

In general, Implant dental surgery might be right for you:

• Have one or more missing teeth

• Have healthy oral tissues

• Have a jawbone that is full grown

• Have adequate bone to secure implant

• Don’t have health issues that will affect bone healing

• Unwilling or unable to wear dentures

• Want to have speech improvement

• Willing to commit to several months process

Reasons for Dental Implant Surgery

Implants are surgically placed in your jawbone, where they serve as the roots of missing teeth. Implant dental surgery is not like fixed bridgework or dentures because the titanium in the implants fuses with your jawbone, the implants won't make a noise, slip or cause bones damage away. Plus, the materials used can't decay like your own teeth that support regular bridgework can.

Advantages of Having Implant Dental Surgery Over Bridges and Dentures

1. Reduced bone growth- if you lose a tooth, there will be a hole left and the bone around this area will slowly begin to disappear which may change your jaw shape. A dental implant placed in that area can stimulate bone growth and production, preventing loss bone structure. Bone loss can also make a person look older, since the area around the mouth can sag as bone is lost.

2. Improved dental hygiene – unlike dentures and bridges; which needs special cleaning and extra attention, dental implants needs only dental and flossing like your natural teeth.

3. Improved function - dental implants function just as well as your own natural teeth, you can eat the foods you want and speak with complete confidence. Not like dentures that come loose or cannot withstand the hard biting forces as they cause pain in the gums. Irritation and inflammation of the gums is a common problem amongst people with dentures.

4. Better aesthetics - If done perfectly, dental implant is indistinguishable from your surrounding natural teeth. Dentures can make noise, come loose and look unnatural. Some bridges and dentures have unpleasant metal clasps to hold them in place. Dental implants provide a much better cosmetic end result.

5. No need to remove or drill any healthy tooth structure - in replacing missing teeth with bridges, the teeth adjacent to the gap need to be prepared. In the future, if one of the supporting teeth is damaged, the entire bridge will also be compromised. Where with an implant, the restoration is independent of any of your other teeth. By replacing lost teeth with an implant, no support is required with the adjacent teeth, and your natural teeth do not need to be altered in any way.