Dental implants for missing teeth

Single tooth solutions

If a tooth and its root are missing, a crown secured on a dental implant provides an excellent aesthetic and functional solution. The dental implant replaces the missing tooth root and the healthy neighbouring teeth remain completely intact and do not need to be touched.

Multiple teeth solutions

If two or more teeth are missing the gap needs to be closed as quickly as possible to avoid malpositioning of the teeth and jawbone. An implant-supported bridge can be used to close a multiple-tooth gap, with the healthy adjacent teeth remaining untouched. Alternatively, a partial denture can be supported by dental implants and removed as desired by the patient. Both these solutions offer considerably more stability than conventional dentures.

All teeth solutions

If the jaw is completely toothless, dental implants can be used to support a complete set of fixed teeth or they can secure a removable denture.

Patient Journey

The benefits of dental implants in London

• 1. Most like natural teeth

  Once treatment is completed, the result looks completely natural and will be visually indistinguishable from your natural teeth.

   

  2. Prevent bone loss

  Bone loss inevitably follows tooth loss if the tooth is not replaced in the bone. Dental implants can help stimulate the bone to rebuild itself and stay healthy by fusing to the jawbone and stabilizing it.

   

  3. Strength and function

  Dental implants actually become part of your jawbone, and in doing so they provide a permanent solution to tooth loss unlike dentures or bridges which may need to be replaced or remade.

   

  4. Ease of care

  Caring for implant teeth is no different than caring for your natural teeth. You must brush them and floss them daily, but you won’t have to apply special creams and adhesives, or soak them in a glass overnight, as you would with dentures. They’ll also never need a filling or a root canal, as the natural teeth supporting bridgework might.

• 5. Support facial structure

  When the bone beneath a lost tooth begins to break away it can give your face a sunken and prematurely aged appearance, and even leave your jaw more vulnerable to fractures if left untreated long enough. With dental implants, it is possible to prevent this from occurring and even help to reverse the effects, helping you to look younger for longer.

   

  6. Safe for teeth

  Dental implants have no effect on the health of adjacent natural teeth; other tooth-replacement options, however, can weaken adjacent teeth and leave them more susceptible to decay.

   

  7. Long-lasting

  With the right care, dental implants have the potential to last a lifetime.

   

  8. Quality of life

  Implant teeth allow you to eat, speak and smile with complete confidence because they will never slip or shift like removable dentures often do.

   

Alternative treatment options for restoring missing teeth

• Dentures

  

  Plastic or metal frameworks that hold one or more false teeth.

  More on dentures

• Bridges

  

  False teeth that are fixed onto the natural teeth on

  More on bridges

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