As a highly experienced cosmetic dentist, Dr. Viarkhouskaya (Dr. V) is pleased to provide her patients with the revolutionary option of dental implants. In her opinion, this is one of the most exciting procedures available in dentistry today.
V Dent Family and Cosmetic Dentistry offer high-quality dental implants to replace missing teeth or correct ill-fitting dentures or bridges.
A dental implant is designed to match your natural teeth, making it virtually impossible to tell the two apart. The artificial tooth root is capped with a customized tooth restoration, such as a porcelain crown, which has a natural look and feel, allowing it to blend with your teeth seamlessly.
Dr. V regularly participates in implant education programs in order to excel in the field of oral implantology and offer our patients the highest quality of care possible.
Our implants can restore the natural beauty of your smile
What Is a Dental Implant?
Most often, dental implants replace missing teeth that have been lost to decay or injury. The most common treatment is the root form implant. There are three components of a root form dental implant: the titanium implant, an abutment, and a crown. The titanium post gradually fuses to the jawbone and serves as an artificial tooth root. An abutment connects this titanium post to the crown. The crown is custom-made to look just like a natural tooth to restore both form and function, completing the look of your smile.
What Are the Benefits of Dental Implants?
- Prevent Bone Loss
When you lose teeth, you also tend to lose bone mass in your jaw. Your jawbone needs the stimulation it gets when your teeth connect to maintain its mass. Dental implants are the only tooth replacement option that also replaces that jaw bone stimulation, helping to prevent bone loss. In fact, dental implants may be recommended to prevent further bone loss. In these situations, bone can actually be rebuilt with grafting procedures as part of the implant process.
- Improved Ability to Chew and Speak
Removable dentures can slide off when you’re eating and, sometimes, when you’re speaking. But with dental implants surgically placed into your jaw, you gain more tooth stability. Because dental implants feel and function just like natural teeth, they enable you to speak easily and naturally. You can chew and eat more comfortably.
- Other Teeth Will Not Be Affected
Other tooth replacement options such as dental bridges require grinding down the adjacent teeth so that the bridge can be cemented on them. By contrast, dental implants don’t compromise any adjacent teeth as they are directly placed into the missing tooth’s space.
- Durability
Dental implants are either made from titanium or zirconium, which are both known for being durable. Thus, with proper and regular care, dental implants will last many years, perhaps even a lifetime.
- Convenience
Since dental implants are designed to fuse with bone, they become permanent. In turn, they eliminate the inconvenience of removing dentures every night, as well as the need for putting messy adhesives to keep them in place. Dental implants are firmly anchored in place and will never embarrass you.
- High Success Rate
When performed by a specialist, dental implant procedures have a high success rate. Clinical studies even indicate a success rate of greater than 95%—and that is higher than any other tooth replacement option.
If you’re in need of a tooth replacement option, you should definitely consider dental implants. To find out if you’re a good candidate for dental implants, schedule a consultation at (470)740-0700
For more information please check our Implants Q&A page