Enjoy the Speed and Convenience of Replacing Missing Teeth with Same-day Dental Implants

Your procedure begins with a comprehensive dental exam using digital X-rays, 3D scans, and photographs. The dentist will examine your tooth to determine the best way to extract it. Whether you need simple or surgical extraction, you can trust us for painless and precision techniques. Great care is necessary to minimize damage to the surrounding bone. After extracting your tooth, the dentist will ensure your gums and bone are free from infections before placing an implant.

Advanced imaging allows our doctor to establish the density and volume of your jawbone. If it’s healthy enough, you don’t need supplementary procedures like bone grafting or sinus lift. The dentist will create a small hole in the jawbone and place a biocompatible titanium post. The dentist will then place a healing cap over the implant and suture the wound to begin healing. The dentist may restore your implant with a temporary tooth to restore your appearance during healing.

Your gums will heal over the next few months, and new bone cells will grow around the implant. This biological process is called osseointegration, where the titanium implant fuses with the surrounding bone tissue to create a strong foundation for the final restoration.

After healing and integration, the dentist will replace the healing cap with a small metal connector (abutment). This small prosthetic tooth protrudes above the gum line and links the implant to a custom-fitted dental crown. Your permanently restored tooth looks and functions like natural teeth.

The jawbone maintains its density and volume from the continuous stimulation from your roots when chewing and grinding. However, when you lose your tooth, this stimulation stops, and your jawbone begins to resorb, losing its height and width. Jawbone degradation affects your aesthetics and bite alignment and makes you ineligible for dental restorations like implants. As such, you’d need bone grafting in the future to rebuild lost bone tissue, restore your aesthetics, and improve your eligibility for implants.

Immediate dental implant placement allows jawbone stimulation to continue uninterrupted, yielding numerous benefits like:

• Preserving your teeth alignment
• Eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming bone grafting
• Maintaining your facial aesthetics
• Supporting tooth function

Although same-day dental implants have several benefits, they aren’t ideal for everyone. If you have active gum disease, this must be addressed before placing an implant. Besides, if you have severe bone loss, you’ll need bone grafting to create a stronger foundation for the implant.