Perfect Smile Alignment
Dental Implants
The dental implant is a cylindrical and/or tapered post made of titanium placed surgically into the jawbone. As you heal, your implant will fuse with, your natural jawbone, with the two growing together to form a strong and long-lasting foundation for your replacement teeth.
Once the implant bonds with the jawbone, a small connector – called an abutment – is placed on top of the dental implant to connect the implant to the replacement tooth or teeth.
An individual tooth, an implant-supported bridge or dentures containing multiple teeth are then attached to the abutment to replace a single missing tooth or multiple teeth.
Advantages of Dental Implants:
Next best thing to healthy, natural teeth
Strong and stable, a dental implant restores a lost tooth so that it looks, feels, fits and functions like a natural tooth. Other options can lead to bone deterioration, and may interfere with eating, smiling, speaking and other activities of everyday life.
Built to last. Dental implants are a long-term solution
Traditional, tooth-supported dental bridges only last five to seven years, and with proper care often more than 10 years, but at some point they may need to be replaced. While dental implants may need periodic adjustments, they can last a lifetime when properly placed and cared for over time.
Enjoy life without worrying about your teeth!
No need to stay home or feel uncomfortable in public, embarrassed because your smile looks different, or worrying that missing teeth will limit your ability to join in the fun or that removable dentures or tooth-supported replacement teeth will loosen or fall out when you talk, eat or laugh. Teeth restored with dental implants are teeth that let you, not your teeth, lead your life.
Retain your natural face shape, and smile
A face without teeth can sag and appear sunken and sad. Dental implants allow you to maintain the natural shape of your face and smile. Speak easy. Adjusting to removable dentures can mean struggling to pronounce everyday words. Not so with dental implants, which function like natural teeth.
Eat your favorite foods!
Taste and enjoy the foods you love without hesitation. You can bite naturally, eat virtually anything you want and, unlike removable dentures that can feel uncomfortable, you can experience the full taste of the food you eat with dental implants, too.
Wisdom Teeth Extraction
- Permanent third molars, more commonly referred to as wisdom teeth, erupt between the ages on 17 to 21 years, hence the name.
- In most cases wisdom teeth do not erupt completely in the mouth due to lack of space or at times are completely impacted in the jaw bone.
- Partially erupted wisdom teeth may can cause problems with brushing and maintenance of good oral hygiene which can lead to cavities and swelling and bleeding of gums. Additionally, it can causing root resorption and bone loss around the other teeth compromising their health.
- Completely impacted wisdom teeth, that which have not erupted in the mouth at all, can cause potential problem like cystic growth or tumor.
- It is recommended to extract the wisdom teeth during the teenage years when the roots are still developing and not complete formed. This ensures faster recovery and prevent any potential problem like caries, swelling gums or infection, as mentioned earlier.
