Dental Implants, What Are They And What Is The Process Involved - Health - Dental Care

A dental implant is essentially a titanium screw about a centimetre long, which we place as the root of a tooth. That actually fuses to the bone and becomes part of you and once it's integrated, that means fused, it's physically impossible to remove. The hip surgeons borrowed our technology and that's, if you can imagine if it can take the forces of someone walking it can take the forces of someone biting. On top of that we screw and glue a crown on top and that's the part you will see. So the whole process involves the titanium screw, known as the implant, and the crown and the abutment that goes on top.It's a surgical procedure similar to having a tooth removed so the first process is we actually may need to remove teeth, we may need to clean the teeth; we may need to do your fillings. Your mouth has to be completely healthy before we can place an implant. Once it is, we'll then do another surgical procedure, like taking out teeth but we actually screw in the screw. We t hen wait three to six months to allow this healing period, or integration or gluing to the bone, which will take anything, as I said, up to three to six months. Once that's done we will then take impressions of the implant, send it to our technicians, which are all based in London, who will then replicate your teeth in forming a new tooth, which will then be screwed on top of the implant. That process from integration finish to the actual fit of the implant crown takes about six weeks.

Once it is, we'll then do another surgical procedure, like taking out teeth but we actually screw in the screw. We then wait three to six months to allow this healing period, or integration or gluing to the bone, which will take anything, as I said, up to three to six months. Once that's done we will then take impressions of the implant, send it to our technicians, which are all based in London, who will then replicate your teeth in forming a new tooth, which will then be screwed on top of the implant.

A dental implant is essentially a titanium screw about a centimetre long, which we place as the root of a tooth. That actually fuses to the bone and becomes part of you and once it's integrated, that means fused, it's physically impossible to remove. The hip surgeons borrowed our technology and that's, if you can imagine if it can take the forces of someone walking it can take the forces of someone biting. On top of that we screw and glue a crown on top and that's the part you will see.