Our team addresses missing teeth with dental implants, which can take on a single lost tooth or even secure a complete smile again. To plan and guide this process, we use digital imaging and even 3D printing! In today’s blog, your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist and dental implant expert talks about our state-of-the-art technology.
Planning Dental Implant Placement
Dental implants are inserted into the jawbone surgically, where they act as new roots, keeping your smile intact and allowing our new teeth to last for decades to come. To ensure their success and longevity, our team could plan the process in detail in digital x-rays, which allows us to peer beneath the gums to assess the jawbone easier. We also have I-CAT CT scanning to assess the presence of nerve tissues, blood vessels, and sinus cavities we want to avoid. These systems use less radiation and provide instantly digital images chairside, no need for lengthy waits or uncomfortable bitewings.
Guiding New Teeth and Creating Restorations/Prosthetics
To help guide the new roots into the right position, depth, and angle to support new teeth, we can oversee the process with Virtual Implant Placement (VIP). We also have the 3Shape Trios scanner, and can employ the Exocad implant guide, which uses the CT scans we took earlier to help assist with removable cases. For the crowns and dentures that complete your new tooth or teeth, we can use the SprintRay 3D printing system to create custom restorations and prosthetics in the same visit. With this option, we can help assist with tooth replacement in only one sitting, so you leave with a full smile!
Helping Your Smile Heal
What if we find that your jawbone has deteriorated due to tooth loss? To help facilitate the growth of bone structure and improve the strength of underlying tissues, we can provide regenerative technologies. Options like Pep-Gen, Gem 21, and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy can help heal these areas, and allow the patient to recover from dental implant placement much faster, so people can return to their normal routine sooner. We will inject a special autoplasm to help facilitate this, so you recover faster and your smile can support new teeth even if the underlying structures have weakened with time. If we need to just the gums and reshape them in any way, we can do so comfortably and quickly with laser systems like Millenium Periolase and Biolase Waterlase systems, so we can adjust tissues and conduct periodontal plastic surgery!
Brooklyn Periodontics Discusses Dental Implant Technology
Our team wants to help restore what has been lost with comfort and precision using advanced technology. For more details about the use of our advanced technology, then please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
