Dental Implants

1. What is a Dental Implant?

A dental implant is an artificial tooth root made of titanium. It is placed in the position where the missing tooth used to be in the jaw bone and acts as an anchor for a new tooth or teeth. They behave like tooth roots by bonding to the underlying jaw bone.

2. What are the benefits of dental implants?

Teeth may be lost due to gum disease, injury such as a traumatic accident, previous surgery or failure of old dental treatment. If teeth are lost, implants placed in their place can help to arrest the inevitable gum and bone loss that occurs due to the disuse of the residual jaw bone. Loss of the jaw bone can make people look older than they really are. Implants will help prevent these changes.

If single teeth or group of teeth are missing, implants can help replace these missing teeth without having to prepare and grind down the neighbouring teeth thereby preserving natural teeth and maintaining their life.

Patients who wear removable partial dentures can have these replaced by fixed teeth using dental implants. This enables a better quality of life, confidence to smile and speak as well as an improved ability to eat a much wider range of foods. It is like having your natural teeth back again!

Missing back teeth most often cause loss of support for the facial muscles giving a 'sagging' effect. Back teeth can be replaced with implants thereby improving facial support to provide a more youthful appearance as well as making eating your favourite foods a pleasure again.

Patients with all their teeth missing can also benefit from dental implants. Implants can be used to support or to replace dentures altogether.

3. Am I a good candidate for Dental Implants?

Anyone who is in good health and has teeth missing is a suitable candidate for implant therapy. Age is not a limitation to implant treatment except that under eighteens are not usually treated due to growth considerations. Patients with underlying medical conditions need to undergo a thorough medical examination with special attention paid to patients with conditions that affect the healing of bone and soft tissues.

Millions of implants have been placed around the world and these people now enjoy the benefits that fixed teeth can provide including a person's confidence and improving their appearance. Dr Habib has trained in England, Europe and America with leading Implantologists.

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