We offer a wide range of dental implants and mini-implants suited to your needs. We can also offer same-day implants, instant dental implants service. London Smile Care is a market-leading and rated Dental Implant Clinic., delivering the highest standards of clinical care and expertise.
Why Dr. Firas Daoudi Would Recommend a Dental Implant
Dental implants are designed to provide a strong foundation for replacement teeth. These new teeth look, feel, and perform just like a regular tooth. Dental implants are changing the way our patients live. A person who has lost a tooth is able to regain the ability to eat with that tooth again. A dental implant appears completely natural and keeps your facial contours intact by preventing the bone deterioration that occurs when teeth are missing. An implant is one of the healthiest ways to replace a missing tooth.
How Implants Compare to Traditional Dentures
Dentures have been a solution for missing teeth for centuries, but they have a few notable flaws. When we use our own teeth to chew, it stimulates the jaw bone and keeps it strong. Dentures aren’t very effective at providing this stimulation, resulting in oral health problems like bone loss in the jaws. This, in turn, can lead to the dentures not fitting very well, so they can slip and fall out easily and leave the gums feeling sore.
Implants, on the other hand, are artificial teeth that are placed into the jawbone and function the same way as the roots of teeth. Implants greatly reduce the risk of bone loss and they won’t slip and slide while you’re trying to chew your food or have an engaging conversation. Taking care of implants is the same as taking care of natural teeth. True, the price tag can be higher with implants than dentures, but that’s pretty much the only advantage removable dentures have as replacement teeth. Implants can replace individual teeth or they can be used as anchors, such as with All-on-4 dental implants.
Benefits of Dental Implants
Dental implants are the gold standard for replacing missing teeth. Anyone missing teeth understands that they sacrifice confidence and the ability to smile and laugh without covering their mouths in shame. The most obvious of benefits is the ability for greater enjoyment of life. But the benefits go far beyond this:
- Improved appearance and overall self-esteem: Dental implants look and feel like your own teeth because they permanently fuse with the bone. They give you back your smile and help you feel confident in yourself.
- Improved speech: With dentures, the teeth can slip and slide in the mouth, causing slurring or mumbling. With dental implants, you speak without the worry that teeth might slip.
- Improved comfort and convenience: Because they become part of you, there is no more embarrassing inconvenience of removing dentures or the need for messy adhesives to keep them in place.
- Easier eating: Sliding dentures can make chewing especially difficult. Dental implants function like your own teeth, allowing you to eat your favorite foods without pain. Teeth are supported by stable and robust implant posts that have fused with your jawbone.
- Improved oral health: Dental implants don’t require attachment to other teeth, as a tooth-supported bridge does. Because nearby teeth don’t support the implant, your original teeth are left intact, improving long-term oral health.
- Durability: Implants are long-lasting and durable. With proper care, they will last many years. Some implants can last a lifetime.
- Stopping bone loss: A natural tooth root provides continual stimulation to the bone surrounding it through force whenever you bite down or chew with that tooth. If the tooth is absent, this stimulation is lost, and the bone recedes. By replacing your tooth root with a dental implant post, stimulation is restored to your jawbone, halting further bone loss.
- Healthy remaining natural teeth: Restoring missing teeth with dental implants protects your remaining teeth by preventing them from moving out of position and maintaining your natural bite.
Caring for a Dental Implant
To ensure that your implant lasts as long as it should, you should keep up with good daily oral hygiene habits. An implant can’t get a cavity like a normal tooth, but because it lacks the periodontal ligament between the gum and implant, the surrounding tissue can be vulnerable to infection. We encourage our dental implant patients to be diligent with brushing and flossing so that they can avoid problems like peri-implantitis.
The Anatomy of a Dental Implant
There are three parts that make up a dental implant.
- The implant: a titanium screw, which is surgically placed into the patient’s jaw bone where the original tooth used to be
- The abutment: a small piece that ensures a snug fit
- Crown: the top part of the tooth, which is attached to the implant and matches your natural teeth
Millions of people get dental implants to fill the gaps in their smiles every year. If you’d like to learn more about this excellent modern solution to an age-old dental problem and find out if dental implant surgery could be part of your treatment plan, we’re happy to answer your questions!
What Are Dental Implants?
Dental implants are the state of art technique to replace missing teeth. A dental implant is a special screw made of titanium. It is surgically inserted into the jawbone, allowed to heal for a period of time before placing the final tooth. In some cases, immediate dental implants are placed at the time of tooth extraction and a crown or bridge is fitted.
White dental Implants:
This type of dental implants is used where a concern about metal allergy or high aesthetic demands. Using the new tooth-coloured white zirconium dioxide implant meets our patients’ high demands on aesthetics and health. White implant material is strong enough to function on the front and back teeth.
Mini Dental Implants:
Mini implants use the same method to integrate to become part of the bone. The only difference is the size. Mini implants function as an artificial tooth root used to secure cosmetic dentures to improve their retention.
What are the benefits of dental implants?
Health:
Missing teeth may result in bite disturbance and uncontrolled tooth movement. All of which may result in tooth decay, gum disease and TMJ disease. Dental implants help stabilizing your bite and prevent unwanted tooth movement. In addition, with dental implants there is no need to sacrifice the quality of your neighbouring teeth, since adjacent teeth are not altered to support the implant which benefits your oral health in the long run.
Function:
Dental implants restore your missing teeth and bite. Allowing you to enjoy the food you like same as before. It will also help avoiding any embarrassment that may come from loose dentures. Your speech won’t be affected as well.
Natural looks:
With missing teeth and time, sign of accelerated ageing and face changes become apparent. Dental implants prevent such aging sign and help preserve jawbone. Furthermore, your new teeth will look natural and feel like your own.
Boost of Confidence:
Natural looking smile can be reestablished again thanks to dental implants. They will allow you to once again speak and eat with comfort and confidence! Smiling and taking pictures with your friends and family will no longer be an issue for you.
Comfort & Strength
Because they become part of you, implants eliminate the discomfort of removable dentures.
Durability
Dental implants provide durable and long-lasting teeth replacement will last many years. With good care, many implants may even last a lifetime.
Cost Effective
As dental implants implant provides long term solutions to missing teeth, it tends to pay for itself with the years of service needing minimum routine maintenance. We offer different payment options ensure affordable dental implant are possible for our patients
Questions commonly asked about implant treatment
Does treatment hurt?
No. We take special care to ensure adequate local anaesthetic is provided, so that the actual implant placement or bone graft is comfortable.
Is the treatment affordable?
We offer different treatment options including 0% interest to ensure the dental implants are affordable.
How long will treatment take?
This depends on each case. We normally allow 2-3 months healing time in the lower jaw, and 3 months healing time in the upper jaw. Bone grafts and sinus lifts normally take longer to heal. However, for many patients we also offer instant dental implants with immediate new teeth and smile.
How long would the treatment last?
Research shows that dental implants have 98% success lasting many years. With proposer care they could last lifelong.
What is the dentist’s experience with implants?
Our specialist has 25 years of experience with dental implants treated successfully hundreds of patients. Check our reviews and testimonials before making your decision.
How about doing dental implants abroad?
This can be hit and miss! Implant is a treatment for life. Same as teeth it requires maintenance. This can become an issue should complications occur keep going back to the dentist abroad.
We offer each patient a custom-tailored treatment plan based on their unique situation, bone levels, implant choice and other factors.
What are my options to replace all of my missing teeth?
Platinum Option: This technique is based on placing 6-8 dental implants to replace all missing teeth per jaw. The implants placed to provide maximum support around the jaw. However, this may require the use of bone graft, sinus lifts and gum grafts to place the implants for maximum health, function and cosmetic outcome.
Gold Option: This is known at all on 4 dental implants or same day teeth. Those implants are placed in strategic location to maximise the use of available bone and avoid the need for complex treatments. This is an affordable dental implants technique with great results and smile in a single day.
Silver Option: This option uses 2-4 implants to support a removable denture replacing all missing teeth. This option can provide economic approach to replacing the all missing teeth and gum. This cheap dental implants option provide a semi-fixed denture that allows you to function in total confidence and enjoy life again.