When you have suffered from tooth loss, this leaves gaps in your smile and impacts everything from how you eat or how clearly you speak. But we can help by placing dental implants. In fact, we could accomplish this in only one day for some patients. In today’s blog, your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist and dental implant expert talks about same-day dental implant placement.
The Causes of Tooth Loss
Tooth loss can occur due to accidents or injuries to the smile, or even as a result of an untreated cavity or dental infection. However, the most common cause of missing teeth is periodontitis, the advanced stage of gum disease. At this stage, the tissues connecting your teeth and gums are destroyed, which leads to lost teeth. We want to offer treatment to manage periodontal disease and protect you from poor gum health and tooth loss. If you have missing teeth, we can replace them using implant dentistry, so you have new ones that look and function like natural teeth.
Placing Your Dental Implants
When we examine your smile, we will use digital x-rays and CBCT imagery to assess the strength of the jawbone and choose the best angles and position to insert your new roots. These biocompatible titanium posts act as new rots and help protect the stability of your jawbone, so your new teeth can stay in place for decades to come, possibly even a lifetime. If your jaw is too weak for dental implants, we could discuss options like grafting or a sinus lift to create a base that can support new roots and help keep your smile intact. Once these posts are in place, we can move forward with completing the tooth, sometimes in only one visit!
Crowns and Dentures
With same-day placement, our team will insert the post and then attach an abutment and a temporary tooth in the same sitting. You then return later so we can swap the temporary for a finished and custom crown, completing your new tooth. If you have severe tooth loss, we could use options like All-On-Four to secure a full smile in only one visit, with results that are stable and able to last for years to come.
If you have any questions about how we replace missing teeth and help you smile with confidence again, then contact our team today. You deserve a full and beautiful smile, and we want to make that possible, so reach out today!
Your Brooklyn, NY, Periodontist Offers Tooth Replacement
Our team can treat missing teeth with dental implants in only one day in some cases! To schedule an appointment and replace your lost tooth, contact your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist by calling (718) 444-3800.
