Dental Implants

The best solution for the permanent replacement of teeth is dental implants. The technique used has been achieved thanks to an extensive scientific research that has been carried out for more than 40 years achieving reliable results with a significant improvement in aesthetics and functionality. A dental implant is a titanium screw that is inserted inside the bone so that the bone grows rapidly around it and is accepted by the body as its own. This union between the implant and the bone must be stable and durable.

Thus, the replacement of a tooth with an implant is carried out by placing the titanium screw in the bone. In most cases, a ceramic or resin crown will be placed on the implant.

Esthetic and reliable results

Dental implants offer a number of advantages over traditional solutions such as crowns, bridges and removable prostheses.

  • They look, feel and function as if they were natural teeth.
  • To place the new prosthesis it is not necessary to damage the adjacent teeth that would serve as support points.
  • After losing teeth, the placement of implants prevents the bone reduction that would occur naturally.
  • They are considered a definitive treatment.

Treatment process

The process to follow for the placement of dental implants is as follows:

  1. Through a proper examination and by using appropriate diagnostic methods, the patient’s individual situation is examined.
  2. Insertion of the dental implant. Once the implant has been placed in the bone, it is covered with gum, if bone regeneration has taken place, or the provisional tooth can be placed immediately. This procedure is new and is known as “immediate teeth” or “teeth in a day”.
  3. In cases where the tooth is not placed on the same day as the implant, it is necessary to wait for the bone to fuse with the implant. Bone integration usually takes about 3 months during which time an impression abutment will have been placed.
  4. To make the crown in such a way that it is perfectly adapted to the abutment, an impression of the abutment already in place must be made. A final model will be obtained which will be used to make the crown.
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Dental implants can replace a single tooth, some or all of them. Nowadays, in some cases, it is possible to place the implants together with the teeth above them on the same day of surgery. This new technique of “teeth in one day” favors the patient’s comfort since everything is placed on the same day and only one surgery is performed. To perform this technique it is necessary to have an adequate quantity and quality of bone in the patient’s area to be restored.

The success rate of implant placement is currently very high thanks to existing bone regeneration techniques (sinus lift, alveolar ridge augmentation).