Dental
Implants
Improve your life with dental implants
Whether you've lost one tooth or several you might never have become
accustomed to losing your teeth. Now you can have replacement teeth
that look, feel and function like natural teeth.
What
is a dental implant?
Advances in dental science allow your dentist to offer artificial tooth
roots which fuse with the jawbone to form a secure foundation for tooth
replacement. Almost all dental implants in use today are made from titanium
or titanium alloy, materials that have been shown over many years to
be well tolerated by bone.
A dental implant is essentially a substitute for a natural root and commonly it is screw or cylinder shaped. Each implant is placed into a socket carefully drilled at the precise location of the intended tooth.
How
many teeth can be supported by implants?
All the common forms of tooth replacement, such as bridges, or dentures
can be replaced by dental implants. If you are missing just one tooth,
then one implant is normally all that is needed to provide a replacement.
Larger spaces created by two, three or more missing teeth do not necessarily
need one implant per tooth. Occasionally, it is even possible to join
natural teeth to implants with a conventional bridge.
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Improve appearance
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Improve comfort and speech
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Eat what you want
- Smile with confidence
- Maintain healthy adjacent teeth
- Long term tooth replacement
- Improve self esteem
What
steps are taken and how long does it take?
Examination, planning and restoration usually takes place in the dentist's
office. The surgeon prepares the implant site and places the appropriate
number of implants. These are covered with gum tissue while the bone heals.
During the next three to six months, the implants will bond with the jawbone.
Temporary crowns, bridges or overdentures are optional during this healing
period.
Once the implants have fused with the jawbone, a post may be attached to each implant. When the gum tissue has healed, the restorative dentist takes impressions to be used designing the final dental restoration.
Costs start from £2,200 including a fitted crown, for more information please call us on 01895 632133.
Implant Surgeon
We are pleased to have an implant surgeon working with us, Mr Guy McLellan.
He is a maxillofacial surgeon and a dental implant surgeon. He is doubly
qualified in dentistry and medicine and a Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons of England.
He has over 10 years hospital experience including training in ENT and plastic surgery and currently holds a consultant teaching position at Charing Cross Hospital where he runs the dental implant clinic.
His experience in implants dates back to 1994 and includes extra-oral implants to retain facial cosmesis/reconstruction following facial cancer surgery as well as intra-oral cancer rehabilitation and facial deformities such as cleft lip and palate. He continues to work as a member of the Cranio Facial team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
In private practice he specialises in surgical implantology and augmentation procedures including complex intra-oral and extra-oral grafting. He is a mentor for Nobel Biocare and is actively involved in Implant education.
He is a member of
the Association of Dental Implantology, the European Association of Osseointegration
and a Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists.
Implant Surgeon
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Guy McLellan
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