Dental Implants

Dental implants are small titanium cylinders that are surgically inserted into the bone of the jaw, to replace the roots of missing teeth. It is a superior treatment for:

• Denture Implants
• Single Tooth Implants
• Bridge Implants

Dental implants are superior because bone in the jaw is continually loss once teeth have been removed. Implants help to stabilize the bone. Placing a dental implant after a tooth has been loss can prevent a chain reaction of problems that would affect your entire mouth. Teeth need each other for support. When a tooth is lost the biting forces change on the teeth next to the space, and they shift. When a tooth no longer has anything to chew against it begins to extrude out of the socket. You can eventually end up losing it too. When your bite is slightly off its common that one tooth may hit sooner than the rest. This causes undue stress on the involved teeth and they begin to flex. It is this continued flexing and stress over time that causes the enamel to separate from the inner dentin layer forming the familiar looking notch that we call a fraction. As your bite changes it gets harder and harder to chew your food and you may get damage to your jaw joint the TMJ. It is much harder to clean teeth that have shifted. Harmful plaque and tartar collect in these new hard to reach places. Causing cavities and the permanent bone loss that comes with gum disease. A partial denture is another way to solve the problem of missing teeth but there are several advantages of an implant-supported bridg