What Is a Tooth Implant?

Tooth implant is an artificial root which is implanted into the jaw bone and serves as the support for the future prosthesis. Implant is made out of biologically inert material, such as titan, of very high quality, and specially treated surface for provision of “sprouting” of bone tissues into the implant. Implants save our remaining teeth. Implants delay face aging processes, jaw reduction and appearance of wrinkles and furrows for years. If natural teeth are lost, mastication efficiency is reduced which has extremely negative effects for the state of the digestive tract. As shown by many studies, implanting is the most effective way of mastication recovery allowing to prevent disturbances in stomach and bowels functioning.

An implant allows to make prosthetic appliances for compensation of minor defect without grinding of neighboring teeth “to be used as a support” which is necessary for making prosthetic appliances with bridge prostheses. If a great number of teeth are missed, implants allow, in some cases, to make prosthetic appliances with fixed constructions which are more physiological, as compared to removable prosthetic appliences.

Implants are firmly fixed to the bone and provide stable support for artificial teeth.

Even if it is necessary to make prosthetic appliances in the form of removable dentures, then they, being fixed to implants, neither shake nor slide out of the mouth cavity which is especially important when eating and talking.

Implants are installed into the bone under gum. After several months, the implant knits firmly together with the jaw bone and is able to support an artificial crown or any other denture. Implants can be used for substitution of one, several or even all teeth.

Main Implanting Stages

• First, implant is inserted into a jaw bone. After some time, the bone accretes firmly to the implant surface.
• After bone-implant accretion, a transition element (abutment) is fixed at the implant. This transition element serves as the support for a crown and any other prosthesis.
• After that, the prosthesis will be fixed onto the implant.

Most Frequently Asked Questions About Implants:

Who will install the implant?

At the Premier Dent clinic, patients are treated by Anatoly Anatolyevich Daliba, a leading implanting specialist with over 15 years of working experience.

Does installing hurt?

Not more than dentistry. Our clinic offers a wide range of the most modern, effective and safe means for local anesthesia which makes implanting absolutely painless.

How much time does implanting take?

Installing one implant takes 20 – 45 minutes. Except standard clinical situations, there are also complicated cases requiring application of more sophisticated surgical equipment and, therefore, more time.

Which company manufactures the best implants?

Nowadays, the dentistry market offers the widest range of implantation systems manufactured in different countries and by various companies. Judging upon many years of experience of using implants made by different companies, dentists of our clinic have finally chosen several implanting systems (USA, Germany). This is due to a variety of clinical situations and necessity of an individual approach to each patient. When we are contacted by a patient who lost his teeth, our main purpose is to restore the functional and aesthetic norm which would bring back the person’s former life quality. To find an optimal solution for the problem of this kind even in the most difficult clinical situation, a dentist must have several implanting systems at his/her disposal which would allow to select an individual “implant” for each patient.

How long does the implant serve?

Does implant failure take place? If the person is factually healthy and has no serious chronic diseases (diabetes, blood diseases, etc.), the implant can stay  up to 20 years and longer. Besides, there exist a lot of factors which may influence the implant service life. All of them are seriously taken into consideration by our dentists at the early stages of implantation planning. Besides, taking care of the implant plays an important role as well as mouth cavity hygiene and observation  of all the  recommendations of the  dentist. In our clinic, dentists will draft for you a special monitoring program for all stages of treatment, as well as post warranty period which would allow us maximal prolongation of the service life of your “newly gained” teeth.

Why is an implant prosthesis better?

This is a very serious question. Any prosthesis without an implant support, while replacing a defect in the teeth line, leans upon your teeth overloading them, and gradual atrophy of bone tissues is progressing in the defect area under the prosthesis, since the bone is not involved when chewing. Gradually, the face changes, wrinkles start cropping up… When prosthetic applications are made on an implant located in the bone tissue, chewing pressure is passed over to the bone which is a physiological norm. This way you don’t overload your remaining teeth and lose no bone tissue in the face area. As a result neither rapid aging nor appearance changing occur which would be inevitable after loss of teeth and in some time after making prosthetic applications without implanting.

What do dentists prefer to install for themselves and their relatives?

No dentist does without an implant after tooth loss, unless serious contraindications against implant installing occur.

How Much Time Must Pass Between Tooth Extraction and Implanting?

In some cases, an implant is installed immediately after extraction of a heavily destroyed tooth.

Most frequently, implanting is carried out in several weeks after extraction of a diseased tooth, as it is necessary to heal all pathologic foci at the place of future implanting and to wait before healthy bone tissue is build at the place of the extracted tooth.

However, if many years pass after the tooth extraction, heavy atrophy of the bone tissue may happen, and installing will not be possible without preparatory actions! If, you find yourself in this situation, your doctor won’t offer you to install implants immediately after the tooth extraction, then, at the clinic, you will be provided with a cosmetic prosthesis, which will carefully hide lack of the front section tooth. In this case, premedication with use of calmative drugs will be carried out first.

And only after that, anesthesia and tooth extraction will be carried out.

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