What Are Dental Implants, and When Are They Used?

A dental implant is an artificial tooth root replacement that is used in prosthetic dentistry to hold a replacement tooth or bridge. There are several types of dental implants such as the Osseo-integrated implant (where titanium is incorporated into bone), the implant-supported bridge, and the implant-supported denture.

Dental implants are used by people who have generally good oral health but have lost a tooth to periodontal disease, an injury, etc. One mayor difference between dental implants and other tooth replacement methods is that a dental implant does not rely on other teeth to support the replacement. Implants have proven to be reliable and a time tested success. In fact studies are showing that with proper maintenance a tooth implant can last a lifetime.

Listed below are a few of the reasons why people are choosing to have a dental implant.

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What Are Dental Implants?

Q: What is a dental implant?

A dental implant is a metallic root of a tooth. It is placed in the bone of your jaw by a dental implant dentist and allowed to heal in the bone for a period of time until the bone-implant union is strong enough to support a prosthetic tooth. The implant is made out of titanium, a metal that is very well tolerated by the human body.

Q:How is it used to replace missing teeth?

A: When you are using a dental implant to replace missing teeth, your dentist will first determine if you have enough supporting bone to safely place a dental implant to support a prosthetic tooth. The implant is placed into the bone in a very specific surgical procedure to insure that the implant will not be rejected by your body. In order to place the implant in the bone, it is necessary to cut through the gum tissue. The gum tissue will usually be sewed up either over the implant or around the implant after it is placed into the bone. The implant will then be allowed to heal in the bone for several months until the union is strong enough to support the prosthetic tooth.

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Do Cheap Dental Implants Exist?

Cheap dental implants are hard to come by. Many dental surgeons charge exorbitant amounts for something that should be considered a necessity. Finding a doctor who is willing to do the surgery for an inexpensive price takes a lot of time and effort. Before anything else, it is highly recommended that you are sure that you actually need the surgery. Your tooth problem may be solved by braces or a simple root canal.

This article tackles the things you need to know before committing to dental surgery.

What is a Dental Implant?

A dental implant is a device, often made of titanium, placed inside the jawbone. This device is designed to act as the tooth root and should be sturdy enough to anchor an artificial tooth, bridge, crown, or denture. Dental implants act as the base for any sort of dental reconstruction done to a patient, whether it be a single tooth or a group of teeth.

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Best In-Depth Guide to Dental Implants

I hope to compile the answers of some of the dental professionals that have had years of experience in the dental implant industry. Thank you for reading.
How Long Do Dental Implants Take?
What's the surgery time for Dental Implants and How many appointment's are involved?
After my research on the appointment and surgery times I've reached the conclusion that it definitely depends on the implant procedure that you are interested in. However, I was surprised to find out that for many of these procedures, there is a very short waiting period, a very short surgery time, and a fair short recovery time.
Here's a list of some very common dental implant procedures:
Single Tooth Implants - For single tooth replacement. The insertion of a single titanium dental implants followed by the attachment of a single crown.
Fixed-Bridge on Implants - For two or more teeth missing. Involves the insertion of two dental implant spread across two, three, or four teeth. This is followed by the attachment of a fixed bridge spanning two, three, or four teeth.

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Single Dental Implants for a Missing Tooth or Teeth

Teeth are lost because of trauma or disease. Trauma may come in the form of an accident or excessive biting forces. Disease is generally tooth decay or periodontal disease [gum disease] but there are other categories such as cancer and various neoplasm's of the jaw that may result in tooth loss. Studies show that more than 50% of the population have one or more missing teeth. Trauma commonly causes the loss of a single front tooth. The effect this has on a persons' well being is obvious. Fortunately an experienced dental implantologist can usually remove the remaining root, place a dental implant, and secure a new tooth to that implant in one visit of an hour or two. The loss of a single tooth in the back is usually caused by tooth decay or periodontal disease. Sometimes this can be treated just like front teeth but for various reasons it is often more time consuming.

More often than not the treatment for a single missing back tooth is as follows:

    Extraction of the damaged tooth and grafting of the root sockets. Wait 4 months then
    Placement of a dental implant to replace the root of the single missing tooth. Wait 4 to 6 months then
    Placement of an abutment on the dental implant and record taking for the fabrication of a crown to replace the single missing tooth. Wait 3 weeks then
    Permanent attachment of the abutment to the implant and cementation of the crown to the abutment.

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Affordable Dental Implants

Dental implants have become very popular because in the long-run, good quality dental implants performed by a skilled dental team gives you the much needed boost in terms of comfort, convenience and confidence. Since dental implants are expensive, it is natural to expect people to consider low cash out dental implants. However, you should not sacrifice your health and well being by opting for what only superficially appears to be affordable dental implants.

Instead be an informed and prudent consumer. Be responsible enough to know your doctor better such as knowing the extent of trainings earned and the materials being used as FDA compliant. Also take the initiative of seeking the experiences earned by your doctors previous patients. The manner in which your doctor handles your inquiries also reflects on his professionalism and ethical concern for his patients. It does not require much effort to verify all the information before you undergo surgery. Taking this process for granted may turn out to be costly for you, money and health wise.

Poor Quality Implant Devices and Dental Implant Infections

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Causes of Dental Implant Failure

Statistics have shown that risk of dental implant failure is about five percent for lower jaw implants and ten percent for upper jaw implants. But one of the most confusing aspects of dental implant failure is that in one person having multiple implants, perhaps all but one of the implants will be successful. There has been no way, to this point, to determine what causes selective dental implant failure.

Some dental surgeons have suggested that this kind of dental implant failure is the result of bacteria present in the jawbone before an implant is inserted; when the implant is screwed into the bone, it unleashes the bacteria and turns them loose in the tissue surrounding the implant. As long as the other implants are placed in bacteria free bone, they will heal cleanly and quickly, but the germ-infested implant will eventually become inflamed, never healing correctly, and the implant will eventually fail.

Dental Implant Rejection

Dental implant failure is not the same as dental implant rejection. Dental implants are made of titanium, a metal which, because of its "inert" nature, has been used for nearly forty years in hip replacements. Titanium causes no adverse reactions in human tissue, and when it is commercially pure, no allergic reactions.

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Facts of Dental Implants

What You Should Know About the Dental Implant Industry

Advances in dentistry within the last decade or so have led to incredible technological developments. Dental implants have become the treatment of choice to replace lost or missing teeth, and when done under proper surgical technique, success rates have surpassed 95%. When the concept of osseointegration or fusing titanium with bone was introduced to the dental community in the early 60s by an orthopedic surgeon known as P.I. Branemark, the application of this concept was adapted to dental use; implementing the procedure, however, into a dental setting was seen as risky and unpredictable. Success rates at this point in time rarely approached 55-60%, and many clinicians felt that their introduction into a patient's treatment plan may be too premature for predictable success of a particular prosthesis. To improve success rates, alterations in the design of the dental implant surface were introduced most without sound, clinical evidence to back-up manufacturer's claims of improved success rates. Through years of empirical experimentation, a titanium dental implant was developed that looked much like that of a natural tooth root.

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Dental Implants

There are three (not serious) main questions, when you understand that you need a dental implant procedure:

1. How much dental implant cost?
2. What are main dental implant prices?
3. Can I get free dental implant? Actually, dentures implant procedure is one of the most expensive things you can do at dentists office.

In the past, dentists would try to keep or replace teeth with treatments such as root canals, bridges, and fixed or removable dentures. Unfortunately, a significant number of root canal treated teeth fail, bridges require that healthy adjacent teeth be cut down and removable dentures can often be unstable and require the use of sticky adhesives. Dental implants are a solution to these problems, and many of the concerns associated with natural teeth are eliminated, including dental decay.

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