How Dental Implant Procedures Are Performed

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"You can look at your oral health and look at your health history, and then make a determination if we can do it right away or do we have to correct certain things first, or do we need to make sure your medication is right, or do we need to talk to your medical doctor and make sure that what we do doesn't impinge on your treatment with your medical doctor. So, those issues all have to be addressed. Now, let's say everything is conditioned, it's good and you're all ready to go, and what do you do? Well, really what we want to do is to be able to place the implants in the location that you have the missing tooth, and the procedure is very routine and very straightforward. When you look at the models, this model shows the basically--it's a clear, the clear space basically shows the inner part of the jaw, and you can see over here there are two implants placed in there. And the implant basically is the root portion of the tooth, and it mimics the root of the tooth. And basically so you can see it's buried. There's nothing on top at all. It's buried in the bone, and buried underneath the gum, because you do not want to see that, you want to make sure the bone engages onto the implant and grows around it and grows into the undercut and lock it in. And once it's locked in, it's near to impossible to remove it. It's a very, very strong adherent so to say, and with today's technology, it's not even just a mechanical bond, you get a chemical bond between the metal and the bone. So this is quite exciting. So we don't have to put the long gigantic implants in our mouth, we can put these short, small implant roots in the jawbone, and it'll still give the same amount of strength, and actually even better than what we used to have."