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Benefits of Implants • Improved appearance. Dental implants look and feel like your own teeth. They are designed to fuse with your jaw bone and become permanent. • Improved comfort. Removable dentures are inconvenient in many ways. They have to be removed for cleaning frequently and need messy adhesives to keep them in place. Dental Implants become permanent, eliminating the discomfort of removable dentures. • Easier eating. Dental implants function like your own teeth. Unlike removable dentures, dental implants allowing you to eat your favorite foods with confidence and without discomfort. • Improved self-esteem. Being able to smile with confidence is very important for everyone. Dental implants restore back your smile and help you feel better about your appearance. • Improved oral health. Dental implant does not require alteration of nearby teeth to support the implant like tooth-supported bridge does. More of your own teeth are left intact, improving long-term oral health. Individual implants allow easy access between teeth which greatly improve oral hygiene. • Durability. Modern implants are highly reliable and exponentially stronger than the tooth roots they are replacing. Made with high quality and durability materials dental implants last many years. With good care they last a lifetime. • Dental Implants • Dental implants are titanium anchors used to permanently replace teeth that are missing, cannot, or should not be saved. Dental implants themselves serve as tooth root replacements to support caps, bridges, or dentures. Developed in the 1960’s, modern dental implants revolutionized dentistry and have become the standard of care for replacement of missing or soon to be missing teeth.Our doctors have vast experience in the placement of dental implants. They have lectured nationally and internationally on implants, taught and mentored other doctors, and published numerous articles on dental implants. Long Term Success • Modern dental implants are highly reliable and exponentially stronger than the tooth roots they are replacing. Recently, the development of stronger titanium alloys (titanium) and implant-surface technology has dramatically improved dental implant success. Today, dental implants have become the single most successful implantable device in dentistry or medicine. • The success of dental implants has been extensively reported to be in the high 90% range (96-98%). Numerous studies of modern dental implants, which have existed in their current form since the 1990's, have shown similar success rates at 15 years. Mini Implants • Though often touted in commercials and the web as a ‘significant advancement in the field of Implant Dentistry’, small diameter one-piece dental implants, better known as mini dental implants, have been around for nearly two decades. They were originally developed as transitional (temporary) implants used to stabilize temporary bridges and dentures. Since these implants often fail to integrate with the bone, they would usually be kept only for a few months and then removed.Over the years a number of clinicians and companies began to market mini-implants for definitive support to dentures, bridges, and crowns. Companies manufacturing these mini-implants, often with no research and development and poor quality control, market their products to non-implant specialists as an ‘easy’ implant, one that doesn’t require as much training or skill to place. Of greater concern is a current trend by some (unscrupulous) clinicians to use mini-implants instead of the stronger, more predictable conventional implants, without notifying their patients.
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