Dental Implants at Ardent Dental, North Vancouver
Dental Implants: A Comprehensive Solution for Missing Teeth
Dental implants are artificial roots and teeth implanted into the jaw to replace missing teeth. Today’s dental implants are durable, and they feel and function like natural teeth. They are also designed to enhance your smile, sometimes even more than the teeth they replace!
Benefits of Dental Implants
Dental implants offer several advantages, including:
- Replacing Missing Teeth: Dental implants can replace a missing tooth without affecting adjacent teeth.
- Maintaining Proper Alignment: Implants prevent teeth from moving into the gap left by a missing tooth, helping to maintain proper alignment.
- Supporting Oral Functions: They support proper biting, chewing, and speech.
- Restoring Confidence: Implants help restore confidence with a beautiful, healthy-looking smile.
- Supporting Bridges or Dentures: Implants can support a bridge or denture for optimal comfort and function,
providing a fixed solution as an alternative to removable partial or complete dentures. In some cases, they also offer excellent support and stability for removable dentures.
The Implant Procedure at Our North Vancouver Clinic
At Ardent Dental Lynn Valley Centre, our dentist surgically places dental implants (usually made of titanium) into the upper or lower jaw bone. The crown or bridge attached to the implants is very natural-looking, restoring or even enhancing your smile.
Reasons for Choosing Dental Implants
Why Opt for Dental Implants?
Dental implants offer a range of benefits that address both aesthetic and functional issues:
- Replace Missing Teeth: Implants can replace one or more missing teeth without affecting adjacent teeth.
- Resolve Joint Pain and Bite Problems: They help resolve joint pain or bite problems caused by teeth shifting into the space left by missing teeth.
- Restore Your Confident Smile: Implants restore your confident smile, giving you a natural-looking set of teeth.
- Improve Chewing, Speech, and Digestion: They enhance your ability to chew, speak, and digest food properly.
- Enhance Facial Tissues: Implants restore or enhance facial tissues, maintaining the natural structure of your face.
- Support for Bridges or Dentures: Implants provide secure and comfortable support for bridges or dentures, making them more stable and functional.
For more information about dental implants, please see the videos below:
Stage 1: Placing the implant
Stage 2: implant restoration
Please contact us if you need more information or would like a consultation to see if you are a candidate for dental implants.
What does getting dental implants involve?
The process of getting implants requires a number of visits over several months.
After deciding that an implant is right for you, X-rays, CT Scan and impressions (molds) are taken of the jaw and teeth to determine bone, gum tissue, and spacing available for an implant. While the area is numb, the implant will be surgically placed into the bone and allowed to heal and integrate itself onto the bone for up to six months. Depending on the type of implant, a second surgery may be required in order to place the “post” that will hold the artificial tooth in place.
With other implants the post and anchor are already attached and placed at the same time.
After several weeks of healing, the artificial teeth or crowns are made and fitted to the post portion of the anchor. Because several fittings may be required, this step may take one to two months to complete. After a healing period, the artificial teeth are securely attached to the implant, providing excellent stability and comfort.
You will receive care instructions when your treatment is completed. Good oral hygiene, eating habits, and regular dental visits will help to maintain your new implant.