Dental implants have emerged as a new ray of hope in the field of prosthetic dentistry since quite a few years now. Dental implants have become the most convenient option for prosthetic replacement of missing teeth, with a metal, screw-like post or stud, which is surgically embedded into the jawbone under the gumline to function as a substrate much similar to a tooth root. These titanium metal posts offer a strong, stable and robust anchorage for an artificial tooth, by fusing effectively with the jawbone.
So if you are someone who is planning to get dental implants for yourself or for your near and dear ones, Dr. Sachdeva’s Dental and Implant Center, based in Ashok Vihar, Delhi, should be your one-stop destination to meet all your dental and implant requirements at affordable prices.
But before you schedule an appointment with us, try giving us a chance to help you with enhancing your knowledge and clarifying all your doubts related to the procedure and benefits of the dental implant surgery.
The Procedure – Let’s Get, Set, Prepare for the Surgery!
Just like any other surgery, dental implant treatment requires you to undergo a thorough preliminary evaluation of your overall and oral health to prepare for the surgical process without any doubt for even a single complication. This especially stands true for patients having any underlying medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, bone diseases and the list continues.
Considering Consulting Your Physician First?
You should definitely get your medical conditions and the medications that you have been taking, reviewed by a physician, before booking an appointment with an Implantologist. You can always consider visiting us at Dr. Sachdeva’s Dental and Implant Centre, Ashok Vihar, Delhi. Only after you have been qualified as a candidate fit for the surgery, will you go for the implant process.
Cross Fingers for Passing Your Comprehensive Dental Examination!
Your dentist will ensure that you undergo various clinical and radiographic examinations to review your complete oro-dental health. Clinical examinations include taking impressions of your jaws and teeth while radiographic examinations include X-rays and 3-Dimensional scans made out of your jaws and teeth.
These radiographic tools help the Implantologist in determining the proportion of jawbone available for implantation and whether it calls for a necessity to undertake bone grafting in order to establish a strong foundation before implant insertion. CT scans additionally facilitate the dentist with accurate location of nerves and sinuses, so as to avoid any unnecessary damage to these vital structures during the surgical process.
Taking all these conditions into consideration, a treatment plan will be laid down depending on factors including the amount and quality of jawbone remaining, the number of teeth needed to be replaced and the status of the remaining natural teeth in your mouth.
The Surgery!
Dental implant surgery spans for over several months’ time and is taken up in a stepby-step approach, scheduled into various stages so as to allow your jawbone to heal effectively after each and every stage, before jumping into the subsequent stages. These stages include :
Removal of Offending Tooth: Your dentist will ensure complete removal of any tooth part or root before an implant post insertion, only after numbing the involved area with local anesthesia to give you an experience of pain-free extraction. This can sometimes be done on the day of implant insertion itself, only if you meet all the essential criteria.
Bone Grafting or Augmentation: In case you have an insufficient bone surrounding the desired area for the post to be inserted, bone grafting will become a prerequisite procedure. Because otherwise, the implant procedure will end up failing miserably, without a sufficient support and anchorage, and might get dismantled on application of even regular biting forces. It usually takes around a quarter of an year to one complete year for the bone to be fully prepared for implantation after grafting, varying from person to person.
Initial Procedure: Once your jawbone has healed considerably, the surgeon will then incise or cut a small part of your gums that has been covering the tooth socket or gap, under the influence of local anaesthesia, where the implant will be placed eventually.
Implant Insertion: Subsequently, the dentist will drill deep enough into the jawbone for accommodating the metal post. After implantation is complete, the surgical area is stitched back with sutures and then allowed to heal for a good period of time.
Healing and Subsequent Procedure: Then, the dentist will again incise to expose and access the implant, in order to screw a temporary crown also referred to as the healing cap or collar, on the top of the metal post. This procedure is usually taken up after three to six months of healing.
Healing Cap Removal: The healing cap allows healing of the gums all throughout the time while it is in place until it is finally taken off after a few weeks of healing have been adequately permitted.
Placement of the Prosthetic Restoration: Again, for proper healing of the jawbone, sufficient time is allowed until the procedure can be completed in its final stage. Finally, the surgeon will place an abutment that screws into the implant and attach a crown on the top of it, completing the full implant architecture. And with this, comes the completion of the multi-staged dental implant surgery. Isn’t it easy?
Having Difficulty in Taking Out So Much Time from your Busy Schedules? SingleStage Implant Dentistry Comes to your Rescue!
Patients who cannot devote ample time for the traditional dental implant procedure, single-stage implant dentistry should be their go-to approach. In this procedure, your surgeon will place the implant, abutment and temporary crown, all in a single visit without any separate healing period or healing cap placement being involved. While, this sounds like a much convenient approach for the dentists as well as the patients, however, it poses the patient to the potential risks of developing various complications since it doesn’t allow any time for the body to acclimate itself with the foreign material. We suggest that you should choose wisely!
Let’s Look Out for the Benefits of the Dental Implants Now!
While the timeline for the dental implant process can span anywhere between half an year to full one year, the results and benefits are definitely worth the wait.
Enhances Facial Appearance: Who does not want to look beautiful? Not only implants restore the dental aesthetics by restoring your smile, but also help to preserve the surrounding jawbone and can even help maintain your facial structure by preventing facial sagging, wrinkling, thinning of lips; thereby preventing premature ageing and giving you a feeling of youthfulness.
Restores Functioning: One of the major benefits of implants – is their capability to maximally restore the chewing ability of the patients, thereby simulating the natural teeth aesthetically as well as functionally. Dental implants promise you a feeling of normality, feel-like natural teeth and are absolutely pain-free
Ensures No More Speech Difficulties: As compared to poor-fitting removable dentures that often cause slurring of speech, implants promise maximum speech restoration and help you by all possible means to enjoy a good conversation.
Comfort, Convenience, Self Esteem – All Checked: Implants tend to eliminate even the slightest of discomfort and embarrassment that could be caused by removable dentures or due to missing teeth and help complete back your set of pearly whites and boost up your confidence.
Uncompromised Oral Hygiene: Single-tooth implants permit easy access between the teeth, thereby helping with maintaining good oral hygiene and ensuring stronger, healthier gums with normal tooth brushing and flossing regimens.
Are Wonderful Neighbors: That’s right! Implants help to preserve the health of adjacent teeth as well. Replacement for a missing tooth is always desired to avoid the chances of drifting of adjacent teeth into the gap created by the missing teeth. Implants solve this problem too and prevent the occurrence of abnormal bites.
Conjointly, with the elimination of this gap, implants help in preventing any food lodgment thereby, improving the oral health and hygiene. Dental implants do not even necessitate the grinding of adjacent and opposing teeth, maintaining their natural form as well.
Are Durable: With optimum care, implants can even last a lifetime! Their power of biocompatibility, non-toxicity and non-rejection by the host body make them stand out as the Supreme amongst all other options for replacing the missing teeth.
We hope you would now be able to outweigh the numerous advantages of dental implants over the fear of undergoing the implant surgery. Let’s not make you wait anymore and help you in achieving that beautiful smile back right at Dr. Sachdeva’s Dental and Implant Center situated in Ashok Vihar, Delhi, the best dental implants clinic in Delhi. We guarantee to provide you with the best, painless, hassle-free implant experience and prioritize your health and welfare.
Dr. Sachdeva, in his experience of over 15 years, has mastered the skill and specialization involved in placing dental implants with over 10,000 dental implants been placed already with a fulfilling 98% success rate; specializing in over 16 implant systems, including Single Tooth Implant, ALL-ON-4, ALL-ON-6, ALL-ON-8, Implant Bridge, Keyhole Implants, Full Arch Implants, Basal Implants and many more.
We heartily welcome you!
