Dental Implants at The Smile Specialists

The personalized care Dr. Larson provides in his state-of-the-art cosmetic, general, and reconstructive dental practice in Campbell, California extends to his dental implant procedures as well. Patients benefit from his experience and knowledge of various implant technologies and techniques.

With implants, individual artificial teeth are permanently anchored to your jaw via a titanium post to replace disease and damaged teeth. Dental implants can also anchor dentures, facilitating your ability to chew and speak. Like real teeth, implants require brushing, flossing, and routine dental check-ups. From start to finish, a dental implant treatment may extend between three and twelve months.

Dental implant treatments often require only a single surgical procedure with local anesthetic or a sedative if desired. Dr. Larson will assess the need for additional analgesics on an individual basis.

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In-Depth: What Are Dental Implants?

Dental implants are small titanium posts placed into the upper or lower jawbone, serving as artificial tooth roots upon which permanent, replacement teeth are secured.

Dental implants are used in primarily three manners. First, implants replace one or multiple teeth without an effect on adjacent teeth. Implants are also used to support permanent bridges, rendering removable partial dentures obsolete. The third common use for implants is to increase a denture’s stability and comfort. These approaches may be combined to produce the best result.

Dental implant procedures require meticulous preparation. The adequacy of a patient’s jawbone to hold the titanium posts is first determined via x-ray. Subsequently, models of the patient’s mouth are crafted to reveal the location of intra-tooth gaps and to provide measurements for the construction of replacement teeth.

Though extremely durable, implants require brushing, flossing, and routine dental check-ups.

The exceptionally durable materials currently used in the United States were developed over thirty years ago in Europe. Remarkably, success rates for upper and lower implants are 91% and 95%, respectively.

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