A tree may look tall and strong above ground, but its real strength comes from the roots beneath the surface. These roots anchor the tree in place and provide essential nutrients and water. Surprisingly, teeth work in a similar way. What we see of teeth may be the white, shiny crowns in your smile, but your tooth’s strength and stability are significantly influenced by its roots. Just like tree roots enhance soil health, tooth roots keep your surrounding jawbone healthy. When you chew, tooth roots stimulate the jawbone, helping to maintain its structure. Without stimulation, the bone begins to shrink and lose volume. When a tooth is lost, the root goes with it, potentially leading to serious issues. While there are several ways to replace missing teeth, only implant dentistry replaces your tooth roots as well!
Understanding Implant Dentistry
A dental implant is a titanium post inserted through the gums and into the jawbone. Over time, it integrates with the bone tissue, providing a strong foundation for a crown, bridge, or denture restoration. When you chew or bite, the implant performs the same function as your natural roots, stimulating the jawbone to maintain its shape and density.
At San Francisco East Bay Mini Dental Implants, Dr. Magno offers two main kinds of implants for replacing missing teeth. While they both maintain jawbone strength, they differ in several important ways.
Conventional Dental Implants
Conventional implants are about 5 millimeters in diameter with a multi-piece design requiring multiple placement appointments. These implants require ample healing time due to their invasive procedure, meaning you may wait 3 to 6 months for your final restoration.
Additionally, a mini implant’s multi-piece construction increases the risk of bacterial buildup between the seams of each piece, which can increase your risk of peri-implantitis. This bacterial infection of the tissues surrounding your implant can contribute to implant failure.
While conventional implants offer a strong and reliable way to replace teeth, the longer healing time, multiple steps, and complex process make them a more costly option.
Mini Dental Implants
Mini dental implants, less than 3 millimeters in diameter, offer a less invasive alternative to conventional implants. At San Francisco East Bay Mini Dental Implants, Dr. Magno uses mini implants because of their numerous benefits for patients.
These benefits include:
- One-piece design: Mini implants are made of one piece of titanium, eliminating your risk of infections like peri-implantitis. Additionally, their single-piece design allows Dr. Magno to use one appointment for placement, saving you time and money.
- Minimally invasive: To place mini implants, Dr. Magno creates a small pilot hole in your gums and bone that preserves the tissues surrounding your implant. This preservation allows for much faster healing.
- Immediate stability: Due to their minimally invasive process and threaded design, mini implants are remarkably stable once placed. Immediately after placement, these implants are strong enough to support a temporary restoration!
With fewer components, fewer appointments, and a minimally invasive procedure, mini implants are about half the cost of traditional implants!
Implant Dentistry: Going Beneath the Surface
However, it’s important to note that implant dentistry goes beyond just replacing the surface of your smile.
Replacing your missing teeth with dental implants is essential for oral health. Without replacing missing tooth roots, bone resorption—or the loss of mass and volume—will occur. As your bone shrinks, you may notice unfortunate consequences like wrinkling skin around your mouth, sunken cheeks, and even a drastic change in face shape.
Additionally, missing teeth often lead to the remaining teeth in your smile shifting around, causing misalignment problems and difficulty eating. Only dental implants replace your smile down to the root, but even replacing teeth with implants becomes more difficult after bone loss.
Conventional implants require significant bone structure to remain stable in your jaw. Without ample jawbone, patients are often ineligible for implant procedures. Fortunately, mini dental implants require much less bone for placement, allowing patients like you to restore their smile!
If the cost and invasive procedure of dental implants have been holding you back from replacing missing teeth, try mini dental implants! Dr. Magno can replace missing teeth and tooth roots to maintain your smile’s function and appearance.
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If you struggle with missing teeth, don’t settle for any tooth replacement option. Implant dentistry offers a revolutionary solution that goes beyond just replacing what you see. Unlike traditional tooth replacement options, implant dentistry replaces your crown and tooth root, keeping your smile happy and healthy!
Schedule a consultation with Dr. Magno today to discover how implant dentistry can transform your smile and boost your confidence.
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