A Rational Approach
Allowing time has benefits beyond better integration, including every aspect of your oral health being understood. Complications such as peri-implantitis, or traumatic mucosal ulcers can be increased by rushed implants.
Dental implants should be permanent and are worth patience, along with skilled input. They also promote growth, rather than harm.
Unlike a dental bridge, adjacent teeth do not have to be “damaged” to provide support. Dental implants will not affect adjacent teeth, except in a positive way, by improving stability within your jawbone.
When a tooth, or teeth are lost, the bone they sat in can erode. With a correctly fused dental implant in place, your jaw bone remains healthy and strong.
The practical advantages are equally important. Comfort and a natural cosmetic appearance, avoiding speech problems, a varied diet, a better sense of taste due to normal exposure of soft tissue.
Dental implants are a revolution in dentistry, the nearest we can get to matching a tooth’s natural structure and suitable for a variety of requirements.
Can Complex Needs Be Supported?
A dental implant case is considered complex when lack of bone prevents safe placement of implants, or aesthetic requirements can not easily be met.
This could arise from genetic conditions, previous dental work, oral cancer surgery, head, or mouth trauma. Each case will be individual, yet share a common bond of needing specialist care.
Implantology skills are required, perhaps periodontal knowledge, to repair the tissue surrounding and supporting your teeth. In more complex cases, maxillofacial surgery will be an added requirement to bring stability.
Our Harley Street clinic often treats cases which are about more than standard restorative dentistry. In depth diagnosis is a pre-requisite, based on experience and evidence, to optimise treatment plans and deliver elements in the right sequence.
A consultant’s eye brings much to decisions, as can the latest forms of computer tomography. Careful consideration is given to reconstruction materials, or whether nerve function could be impaired, leading to loss of sensitivity, or pain.
Suitable time scales are allowed for effective treatment, to promote natural healing at each stage and a lasting outcome.
Are Dental Implants Safe?
The implant market has blossomed and as with any growing field, providers can focus on price. The quality of implant materials is however proven by research to affect the incidence of complications and longer term outcome.
Buying implants purely on price can compromise what should be a safe procedure, along with bypassing the skills needed to create success.
the knowledge of a maxillofacial surgeon matters, to ensure your face, mouth and jaw are understood before decisions are made. Suitable planning is part of safety and can include attending to oral, or medical issues, before implant surgery.
Cases can be straightforward, or require bone transplants, or regeneration. Other tissues can require specialist treatment before proceeding with implants, the detail of your individual make up should be understood.
Risks include infection on, or near the implant site, damage to nerves, blood vessels, or the jaw itself, or not protecting sinus cavities. These are not insurmountable issues, they simply require appropriate knowledge.
The honest answer to a reasonable question is that dental implants are a safe and valuable procedure, if carried out by skilled hands.
Breadth Of Treatment
As a Harley Street maxillofacial clinic, we help with intricate facial reconstruction, following damage, disease, or accident of birth. Restoring dental function can be part of this and implants often play a critical role.
The same level of care and expertise is offered to replace a single tooth, or a small group, missing through an accident, or due to decay. Even if many, or all of your teeth have been lost, solutions are available.
Implants can be placed to support dental bridges. A complete, removable denture can be supported by implants, or a screw retained fixed denture, which your dentist will remove at intervals for in depth cleaning.
Whether you have lost one tooth in an accident, or far more than one, your oral health and living your life are given equal support.
Diagnosis & Planning
An appointment is arranged with a consultant maxillofacial surgeon, a key part of the implant process. All aspects will be reviewed, including any periodontal care required, part of prevention of peri-implantitis in the future.
This detailed evaluation is the foundation of good dental implants. A full examination, x-rays, CT scans, discussion on your medical history and wishes can all play a part, as will the knowledge and experience of your consultant.
They will be positive, yet realistic. Carefully assessing the condition of bone and whether augmentation, bone grafts, or other reconstruction are required. This is a quite normal requirement with more complex dental implants.
Individual medical and lifestyle factors are reviewed, whether they should be factoring into plans, or if treatment is needed for other dental conditions.
Our clinic treats patients with wide needs, including dental implant cases where medical conditions, or trauma can require advanced support.
Dental implants are a pleasure when the right plan has been followed and carried out with safety in mind. Ensuring safe harbour for the fine quality implants we use.
Dental Implant Treatment
Your treatment can be carried out at our Harley Street clinic under local, or general anaesthetic, depending on your case and wishes. Healing and integration phases during treatment normally mean this happens in stages.
The approach to implants will match your needs, with a detailed treatment schedule provided following your consultation and evaluation. Part of good communication and of dental implant safety.
The process is not too long, your single crown, several crowns, or a full set of teeth are soon in place. Specifically created for you, although final checks for shade and ideal bite are made.
The transformation is remarkable and you will be able to look after your teeth in a quite normal way. Aftercare still makes sense, including regular dental visits.
If you are thinking about dental implants and how they would work for you, get in touch with our clinic. You will be made welcome, within an ethos which treats every patient as the individual they are.
