When is a tooth not a tooth?
When it’s a dental implant! Joking aside, yes this is the truth about dental implants. In Herefordshire, as your local dentist, we fit dental implants to replace missing teeth and we’ve been doing it successfully at Warrendale Dental for the last 10 years.
Dental implants are titanium screws that are surgically implanted into your jawbone under local anaesthetic. A crown or denture is then attached to the implant, creating a new tooth that is as strong and durable as your natural teeth, with the right ongoing dental health care.
Science behind the dental implant
Titanium is an incredible implant material that is used in many types of surgery, from pins through to full replacement joints. This is because the body is fooled into believing it is a natural bone or in the case of dental implants, a tooth root. Your jawbone will grow around the screw anchoring it in place. Surprisingly even the soft tissue and nerves will grow around the screw, so that once your jawbone is healed after surgery and your crown or dentures fitted in place it will look, feel and act like your own tooth.
Dental implants in Herefordshire are a great alternative to other teeth replacement procedures. They have additional benefits to other procedures as they support the adjoining teeth and encourage healthy tissue and bone growth. They stabilise the whole tooth chain and prevent additional tooth loss.
In Herefordshire, dental implants can replace more than one tooth
Dental implants can replace more than one tooth. In fact, one implant can hold in place dentures that replace up to three teeth. As long as your jawbone is healthy you can have a number of implants and because we take great care to colour match your teeth, you really can have incredible replacements for even extensive tooth loss. You don’t have to remove your implants for cleaning either, all you need to do is brush and floss as part of your usual oral health routine and come see us for regular check-ups.
As a treatment, dental implants offer a true replacement for natural teeth, solving your tooth loss problems for at least 15 years, more likely for decades.