Same-day dental implants offer several significant benefits, including a faster treatment timeline, improved aesthetics and function, and enhanced confidence. These implants can provide a permanent solution for missing teeth, often eliminating the need for temporary dentures or extended healing periods.
Your dentist will surgically place the implant in an opening in your jawbone.
The implant acts like a new tooth root for the crown that will replace your lost tooth. You’ll have your tooth crown custom-made to look like your natural tooth. The crown attaches to your implant and fills the gap where your original tooth used to be.
When two or more teeth are being replaced together, we recommend using an implant bridge. Usually, we can use two implants for this, one at each end of the missing teeth and then a fixed and permanent bridge in the middle.
Unlike traditional bridges, the natural teeth next to the missing teeth do not need to be prepared for crowns to support the bridge, as the support is provided by the dental implants.
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The first phase of your treatment will be implant placement. Our implant surgeon will apply a local anaesthetic and implant a titanium post into the jawbone, in the location of the missing tooth.
This procedure is quick – lasting between one and two hours – and relatively painless due to the local anaesthetic.
You may experience a small amount of discomfort following the placement of the implant, but this will subside, and healing will occur relatively quickly.
Biological Integration, when the implant is integrated with the bone, is usually expected to occur within 8 – 12 weeks.
In a very small number of cases, this integration may take up to a year. When the implant has integrated with the bone, it will provide a strong and stable platform for the new crown or bridge.
Once your implant integrates with the bone, we are then able to restore the implant.
After taking moulds of the position of the implants, the final ‘teeth’ can be individually designed, made and cemented or screwed into the implant.
Once in place, they will look, feel and function as a natural tooth.
