Dental Implants
Dental implants are fantastic options for replacing missing teeth. If you have one or multiple missing teeth then implants are an effective solution to replace these helping to not only restore your smile but also;
- Preserve your remaining bone – the presence of the implant will slow the change in the bone and gum that follows after a tooth is lost
- Independent of adjacent teeth – replacing a single tooth with an implant avoids having to cut into these healthy teeth to support a dental bridge
- Single implant looks and functions like your own tooth
- Maintaining good oral hygiene is easier with an individual implant crown or bridge than a tooth supported bridge. Reducing the risk of adjacent teeth being lost prematurely.
Replacing a single tooth with an implant is a highly conservative treatment option, as the implant is a replacement for the natural tooth root onto which a crown can be attached. This means it avoids drilling adjacent teeth and damaging these to replace one missing tooth with a bridge as it would have been traditionally done.
Replacing several teeth can be done with implant supported bridgework, for example three missing teeth can be replace with a three unit bridge supported on two implants.
For people who have loose dentures these can be anchored to implants making them stable and firmly attached increasing their retention and therefore function.
Alternatively people who wear dentures can replace these and have complete jaw reconstruction with implant retained full arch bridgework. This would usually be supported on six implants and a bar to connect them all.
Computer guided planning for Dental Implant Surgery
Using advanced digital dentistry techniques to diagnose and pre-plan your implant surgery.
The 3D radiographic imaging method (CBCT) uses high-definition digital scans of your jaws combined with optical scans of your teeth to be imported into our powerful computer guided planning software. This then generates a 3D digital model of your teeth and jaws.
With this method we can plan simple and complex implant surgery cases meticulously and establish limitations and problems in advance. Therefore being able to diagnose and treat patients far more effectively and accurately because of our modern 3-dimensional view under the skin of each patient’s individual anatomy.
Computer guided keyhole surgery in dental implants will become the mainstream workflow, however, not all implant surgery is carried out this way. Here at Confidence Dental & Wellbeing we have heavily invested in 3D systems and 3D printers to be able to fabricate customised surgical guides to increase the accuracy of implant positioning and reduce the treatment time of patients, but most importantly to make implant treatment almost completely painless.
Your implant procedure is calculated and considered in great detail, being rehearsed numerous times before your procedure takes place during the 3D planning phase. This makes the entire surgical process faster, less invasive and more accurate, which means you heal more rapidly and have a fantastic result with less visits to the dental surgery.