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1 – Natural Tooth. 2 – Dental. 3 – Tooth crown
Nature has created the most effective building blocks and any model based on nature’s solutions aims to deliver quality.
A dental implant is a small part made of titanium or titanium zirconium which is placed in the jaw bone in place of the missing natural tooth root. The implant can be surgically inserted under local anesthetic on an outpatient basis. Titanium is generally well-tolerated by the human body and bone has been shown to bond well to titanium.
Once healed, the artificial root acts as a base for fixing individual crowns and multi-tooth bridges. The implant can also be used as an anchor for entire dental prostheses.
In order to take over the function of the tooth root, the dental implant is inserted in the jaw bone by a short operation under local anaesthetic as an outpatient procedure. It knits painlessly with the bone, thus forming a solid basis for the long-term and stable fixation of the denture.
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1 – Natural Tooth. 2 – Dental. 3 – Tooth crown
Not everyone is suitable for implants, certain things like smoking, and medical history can affect the success rate for implants. For best advice please contact us for a consultation appointment.
Patient needed the upper left second incisor extracted due to infection. the tooth was then replaced with an implant.