General Component Parts of A Dental Implant

A dental implant is a titanium screw that is carefully positioned into the jawbone to act as a foundation for supporting artificial teeth, crowns, bridges or dentures.

An implant restoration is thus made up of 3 main parts: 1. Implant Posts: An implant post is a titanium “screw” surgically inserted into the bone of the jaw that act as a replacement root for the missing tooth. Implant posts are normally threaded on its external surface and the internal aspect of the implant is usually a hollow well with screw threads. Titanium is chosen for this purpose because titanium is inert, biocompatible and integrates with the surrounding jaw bone with minimal risk of infection. 2. Abutment : An abutment acts as the “stump” that holds the crown or false tooth that is screwed into the implant posts. 3. Crown : The crown is the visible false tooth of the implant restoration. Crowns on implants resembles a crown on natural tooth in almost every way. Crowns on implants can be porcelain fused to metal crowns or full ceramic crowns.

Types of Dental Implants

There are a variety of dental tooth implants that may be done in replacing single, mulitple, full arch or full mouth missing gaps. Dental teeth implants may be used with crowns, bridges and dentures in replacing missing gaps in teeth.

Single Dental Tooth Implant

Mulitple Dental Tooth Implants

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There are a variety of dental implant systems available on the market. Each dental implant system varies with branding, patented technology and materials, hisotrical case success rates and implant system establishment. Within each dental implant system brand, there are also various models of tooth implants. Below are the list of popular dental implants system brands:

Straumann Switzerland

Nobel Biocare  Sweden/USA

AstraTech Sweden

BioHorizon  USA

Intralock USA

3i USA

Zimmer USA

Bicon USA

There are only 7 dental implant systems with a seal of approval by ADA on the market. Namely, Straumann implants, Nobel Biocare’s Branemark model andAstraTech implants being most popularly implemented and researched ADA approved implant systems. Please do consult with your implantologist on which type of tooth implant system might be best suited for yur case.

Teeth-in-an-hour tooth implants is a concept that provides patients with an immediate functioning tooth or teeth on dental implants in one single session.

The Teeth-in-an-Hour is a dental implant surgery system that streamlines the tooth implant treatment process. The system incorporates the CT Scans and 3-D imaging software to accurately assess bone structure, map out the areas of best integrity, and create a permanent prosthesis prior to the tooth implant surgery. Thus the on the day of the actual dental implant surgery, the implant post is placed and the prosthetics loaded on immediately (immediate loaded implants).

Teeth-in-an-hour tooth implants may be done in 2 trips. First trip for the dental implant assessment, CT Scan and planning. A second trip for the actual tooth implant post placement and fitting of prosthetics on implants.

Why Teeth in an hour Implant Procedure

• enables fabrication of a final prosthesis prior to the surgery
• possibility for flapless surgery enabling less post operative discomfort, less swelling and less bruising
• immediate function
• No temporaries
• Greatly reduced healing time

Teeth in an hour Implants Procedure

Dental Implants Procedure 1

Diagnosis and planning to determining if teeth-in-an-hour concept is suited for the candidate

Dental Implants Procedure 2

First round of CT Scan is done. Data is then input into the computer for dental implant treatment planning.

Dental Implants Procedure 3

A second CT Scan is done with markers in obtaining data for the surgical template and final prosthetic planning. The data is then sent overseas for the template and final prosthetic to be fabricated.

Dental Implants Procedure 4

After delivery of surgical template and final prosthetics. The actual implant post placement is done using the surgical template.

Dental Implants Procedure 5

Immediately thereafter, the final prosthetics is also fitted after implant post placement.

Factors to consider for teeth-in-an-hour implants

• sufficient bone stability for immediate loading of tooth implants
• requires visitation for pre-planning and CT Scan stage prior to having teeth-on-an-hour implant session

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Mulitple Dental Tooth Implants are done when replacing several gaps if teeth. If there are missing gaps together, dental tooth implants with a bridge may be done. An implant bridge will consist of the crowns on dental tooth implants as well as pontic crowns. A pontic crown is a dental crown that is joined together to the anchor crowns on the dental tooth implants in forming a dental bridge.

If there are missing gaps in separate locations, then separate single dental tooth implants with dental crown or a combination of dental tooth implnts with dental crown and dental bridges may be done in replacing missing gaps.

Dental Tooth Implant Procedure for Multiple Dental Tooth Implants

For a multiple dental implant, possible dental implant processes includes:

• immediate implants
• immediate loaded implants
• conventional implants

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There are several possible unfavourable consequences from loss of teeth without replacement:

• Drifting of adjacent teeth: when there is a missing gap, opposing teeth may over-erupt adjacent teeth drif into the empty spaces resulting in food trapping and possible decay
• Difficulty of chewing : missing teeth causes issues in chewing that could possibly result in indigestion
• Poor appearance & bone loss: loss of youthful and facial structure appearance due to bone resorption
• Loss of lip support
• Poor speech : difficulty in speaking specially if front teeth is missing

The most common treatment options in replacing missing teeth are :

Now that we know why missing gaps should be replaced, there are several treatment options to restore teeth. These may include conventional dentures or dental bridges. However, one of the most ideal and recommended missing teeth replacement solution is dental implants. There are added benefits of having dental implants replacement as compared to traditional prostheses.

For a single missing tooth or several missing teeth, implants do rely on or taper with healthy adjacent teeth that dental bridges require. As implants act has new tooth roots, there are set into the jaw bone and can take the biting load pressure like a new natural tooth root.

For an endentulous individual, implants-supported dentures provide for better retention compared to conventional dentures. All-on-4 are fixed dentures that allows for immediate function. And implant full bridges are simliar to having a new set of teeth over each individual implant posts.

Benefits of Dental Implants

• provide a longer-term solution
• slow down bone loss and preserve nearby healthy tooth tissue
• looks and feels smiliar to natural teeth
• will not decay, fracture or foster gum disease
• can replace one or a series of lost teeth
• are strong and able to perform the same functions as a natural tooth
• improve confidence and quality of life
• enhances function, such as chewing and biting
• improved appearance

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