Dental Implants
Versatile And Long-Lasting Approach For Tooth Replacement and Denture Support
What Is Are Dental Implants?
A dental implant is a small titanium screw that serves as the replacement for the root portion of a missing natural tooth. Dental implants can be placed in either the upper or lower jaws. Due to the biocompatible properties of titanium, a dental implant fuses with the bone and becomes a good anchor for the replacement tooth. Dental implants can be used in solutions for replacing single or multiple missing teeth.
Dental implants are the most significant dental innovation of our generation. They offer the best long-term solution for replacing missing teeth with a 20 year success rate greater than 95%. Dental implants have a lifelike appearance and even you will have difficulty telling them apart from your natural teeth. At Love Your Smile Today, Dr Sekand, Dr Schneider, Dr Singh and Dr Jandoo have been placing implants successfully since 1998 and have helped thousands of patients restore their missing teeth and get back their smiles!
Do I Need to Replace Missing Teeth?
Your teeth were designed to last a lifetime, but sometimes they can be lost due to trauma from an accident, gum disease, tooth decay, genetics or other lifestyle choices. Replacing missing teeth is important to your general health and to the health of your other teeth because not only do you lose your chewing ability when a tooth is lost, but not replacing lost teeth can cause other teeth to be lost, tipped or crowded and create subsequent dental problems. Also, there are the obvious problems of poor facial appearance and loss of self-confidence caused by one or more missing teeth.
How Long Will Dental Implants Last?
Although bridges have been successfully used in dentistry for hundreds of years, they generally shorten the lifespan of the teeth that support them and often need to be replaced multiple times over the years. Dental implants as we know them were introduced in the early 1980s, which means that our current research is only about 4 decades old at this point. Over the last forty years implants have changed and improved greatly to be very predictable restorations. Because they are attached to a human body nothing can be guaranteed, but we anticipate implants that are well maintained will last many decades, and hopefully for life.
At Love Your Smile Today we have 25+ years experience in placing and maintaining dental implants. Call us to today so we can help you restore the confidence you’ll feel with a beautiful, full smile!
