Dental Implants
If you are totally happy wearing dentures, implants are not for you. Some people are lucky as they are happy with how their dentures or gaps look, and are able to speak and eat anything they like without discomfort or embarrassment.
But for most people with missing teeth, that is not the reality. A dental implant can:
- Replaces a missing tooth (or teeth) with one that looks and feels like your own, eliminating unsightly gaps
- Allow you to smile widely and eat with confidence
- Stops teeth from moving and tipping over into gaps
- Prevent loss of bone (bone around teeth is eaten away by the body as it is no longer required to support teeth)
- Avoids loss of lips and cheeks support, with the face often appearing sunken with time
- Improve loose full dentures (especially lower dentures) that moves around, causing discomfort, pain and embarrassment whilst speaking and eating
Like a natural root, a titanium implant is a titanium root placed into the jaw bone to replace the missing tooth root. Once the implant is healed (what we call osseointegrated), a crown is placed on top, creating a new tooth, or in denture stabilisation cases, a special connector is placed onto which the denture attaches. In the case of multiple missing teeth, more than one implant can be placed, and multiple crowns or a bridge attached to them. As implants are for the long term, at Chatswood Dental Associates we do not believe in compromising on quality, and only use implants from the company with the longest track record, NobelBiocare.
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