When you suffer from tooth loss, we don’t want you to hide your smile from the world and suffer long-term complications. Instead, we want to handle your tooth loss with our lifelike and long-lasting dental implants. In today’s blog, your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist and dental implant expert will discuss how we place these durable dental implants.
Your Initial Visit
To start, schedule a visit with our team. We will talk to you about your smile, and then take a close look with digital imaging. The use of advanced digital x-rays and CBCT technology means we can closely examine the jawbone and roots, so we can identify the potential causes of your tooth loss and plan replacement. We need to assess the strength of your jaw, to ensure you can support dental implants. If not, we could fortify these areas with procedures like grafting or a sinus lift, helping you obtain a smile that can support new teeth that can last for decades to come with proper care and attention!
Planning Treatment
Dental implants are small biocompatible titanium posts that we insert in the jaw surgically, where they are accepted as new roots and bond with the jaw. This allows them to support a crown for a new tooth, or even a full prosthetic if needed. We will plan the process carefully with digital imagining to ensure the success and stability of your new posts, so your teeth can last and function like natural ones. We will also guide the placement process with advanced imaging technology too. We want to choose the best angle, position, and depth to insert your new roots, so you can enjoy a smile that looks great and stays in place far longer than a traditional bridge or removable dentures.
Sedation for Placement Comfort
We know that oral surgery can be a source of anxiety for some, and we understand. We won’t minizine your fears or discomfort, and instead will take action to ensure your comfort through every step of the process. We can numb areas of your smile directly with a local anesthetic. Our team also has three different forms of sedation and can choose the best one for you, so you enter a deep state of calm and relaxation during replacement, with little to no memory of the process at all!
Inserting Your New Roots
When we have planned the process in detail and sedate you, we will then insert the post or posts into your jaw. With the new roots in place, this means you avoid the loss of mass and density in your jaw, so it remains intact and prevents complications like an aged appearance and issues with meals or clear speech!
Completing Your Tooth
For many patients, we can actually complete your new tooth or teeth in only one visit. We will attach abutments to the implant that allows us to attach a crown, one custom-made for your smile to ensure a lifelike appearance and a balanced bite, blending with your smile.
If you have multiple missing teeth, then several posts could be placed and we could connect a bridge to them, or even a full set of new teeth! The All-On-Four process allows us to secure a complete smile in only one sitting, so you leave our office with a full and stunning smile.
Managing Your Periodontal Treatment
Along with placing and completing your new teeth, we can also provide care for periodontal disease. If you lost teeth due to periodontitis, this could mean your implants could fail unless we manage the disease and keep your smile healthy and intact. With deep cleaning, laser dentistry, and other treatment options, we can help ensure inflammation and disease is kept in check so you smile remains beautiful and full for years to come.
If you have any questions about how we replace missing teeth with dental implants, or about how we manage gum disease with lasers and other treatments to keep your natural teeth in place and avoid implant failure, then reach out to our team today. With the right steps, we can help you and your family maintain strong and healthy smiles, full ones too, in 2026 and through the years to come!
Brooklyn Periodontics Offers A New Smile
A dental implant could be the best choice for addressing your tooth loss, so talk to our team if you happen to be missing one or more of your natural teeth. You don’t have to live with embarrassment and the other complications that follow tooth loss, we can help secure a full smile again, one that can truly last for years to come. For more details about implant dentistry, then please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today. You deserve a full smile, and we look forward to the chance to help make this happen for you and your family!
