Dental Implant

Dental Implant

Dental implants used to replace missing teeth is a surgical procedure in which a titanium screw is inserted into the maxillary or mandibular bone, it will become support for a crown, a denture or a partial or total mobilized.

After screw insertion operation is required waiting period, during which it will establish a connection between the implant and bone, called osseointegration, because implants can help future dentures.
The implant can replace one or more teeth and dentures with implants poles are visually very similar to natural teeth, while functions are entirely missing teeth taken prosthesis.

The only factor to be taken into account regarding the procedure of inserting an implant is surgically health of the patient, usually anyone who is healthy enough to extract a tooth implants can benefit from therapy.

The surgery is performed under local anesthesia, the only side effects of the procedure is a slight swelling of the area where the implant was applied and decreased pain intensity in that region, which can be controlled with analgesics.

Also, unlike conventional bridges or partial dentures, implants therapy does not affect in any way the neighboring healthy teeth to be replaced.

Usually, the number of sessions required for dental implant ranges between 6 and 8, including initial consultation, surgery, postoperative control, the prosthetic and final inspection.

During treatment, the patient may receive provisional crowns or dentures in regions that were inserted titanium screws for implant.

Dentists recommend smoking cessation over the entire period of therapy implants.
The price of a dental implant varies generally from 500 to 800 euros.