Where and when they put the implants requires a detailed assessment of your overall stomatognathic system ("stoma" - mouth "gnathic" - jaw), within which the teeth work. A good assessment should compile data including study models of your mouth and bite, and specialized radiographs (panoramic radiographs), which can also include 3D scanning known as specialized tomograms (CT scans). The help of the images created by the computer ensures that dental implants can be placed in exactly the right position.
How and why bone is lost when the teeth are lost?
Bone needs to be stimulated to maintain its shape and density. Within the bone are small craters that mark where the teeth are inserted. These spaces are alveoli. In the case of alveolar bone that surrounds and supports your teeth, the required stimulation has the same teeth. When a tooth is lost, the lack of stimulation causes loss of alveolar bone. There is a 25% decrease in the width of the bone during the first year after tooth loss and an overall decrease in height during the coming years.The more teeth are lost, the functionality is lost. This can lead us to have a serious aesthetic and functional problems, particularly for people who have lost all their natural teeth. And do not stop there. After the loss of alveolar bone, the bone beneath that, the basal bone - maxilla own - also begins to resorb (melt).
How you can preserve or re-grow bone to support dental implants?
Bone resorption is a natural and inevitable process in which part of the bone is lost when it is not supporting or attached to teeth. Dental implants can only avoid this process and preserve the bone. Performing a bone graft in extraction sockets when teeth are lost it can help preserve bone volume needed for implants. Also surgical techniques to regenerate the missing bone, to supply the required bone substance for perfect anchorage of the implants. In fact, a major reason to consider dental implants to replace missing teeth is the maintenance of the maxilla.As we have seen the bone needs stimulation to stay healthy. Because a dental implant fuses with the jawbone, it stabilizes and thus prevents bone loss in the future.
How do dental implants are placed and who places?
Dental equipment is required to assess and plan the placement and restoration of dental implants - making crowns, bridges or dentures that are placed on the implants and are the visible parts in your mouth. The dental team consists of a dental surgical specialist - a periodontist, a dental surgeon, or in most cases, a dentist trained in the field of implant surgery and then a laboratory technician, or a dental technician, that manufactures dental crowns.Placing a dental implant requires a surgical procedure to create a channel in the jaw precision, often using a small surgical guide. A subsequent dental implant is placed in your site so that it is in direct contact with the bone. Generally require two to six months to bond well with the bone before the dentist can continue with the crown placement and thus complete the entire process. When more time elapses between placement of the titanium piece and the fixing of the crown, the better.
What are the options for the replacement of implanted teeth?
Replacing a tooth: When the implant is stable and ready for restoration, an abutment can be set to connect the final implant crown to the implant. This is a device that connects the titanium implant and crown, which replaces part of the tooth that you see in the mouth. The counter then endure a customized crown that the dental laboratory manufactured to look like your current teeth. The crown on the implant is usually customized to buttress threaded to permanently keep it in place. When in place, it should not look different from your natural teeth.Replacing several teeth fixed: As in replacing a tooth, may be placed caps or temporary abutments to help heal until this phase is completed. After curing, buttresses are placed in permanent implants. May be placed crowns or bridges custom manufacture a prosthetic lab to look like your natural teeth. In the final step, the custom bridge, which will replace several teeth, cemented or screwed to the abutments. The teeth have been replaced without disturbing nearby teeth, and has stopped bone loss.
Replacing all teeth of a maxilla: If you are missing all lower teeth, depending on the design of the removable restoration, you can use two to six implants to support a lower denture. If left all upper teeth, you can use a minimum of four implants to support the upper teeth. Removable dentures are generally used to replace the extensive loss of teeth, bone and gum tissue, providing support for the facial skeleton, lips and cheeks. A new denture may have accessories that can be placed on the implants or you can make a custom milled bar to create a force and an additional support for the restoration. They are often related to variations in design your bone density and the number of implants present; your dentist will mention these options during your consultation. A great advantage of a removable denture on implants is their ease of cleaning.
What is the difference between the teeth "spare" and normal teeth?
Natural teeth and implants may look the same, when touched may look the same, and can also function in a similar way, but are very different. The most important differences are the way they are attached to the bone, its response to dental disease, maintenance and repair.The teeth are attached to the bone with a periodontal ligament ("peri" - around; "dont '- tooth) made of collagen fibers that are bonded to teeth on one side and the bone on the other. Dental implants are fused directly to the bone.
The gum also binds to the root of a tooth with collagen fibers as described above. However, the gum tissue can only bind to the surface of dental implants.
Natural teeth are susceptible to decay and root canal therapy (endodontic); Dental implants are metal and do not deteriorate or need such therapy. Teeth may also be susceptible to periodontal diseases (gum), while dental implants may be susceptible to periimplantitis, inflammatory response to bacterial layers that form in the tissues surrounding the implant, which can result in disintegration of the bone the implant.
What kind of dental implants require maintenance?
The implant-crowns and other prosthetic teeth substitutions (false) are made to be fail-safe systems. They can be removed and replaced with your dentist, because if something needs to be replaced, you can do so without directly affecting bone implants together.However, the implants do require maintenance. It is important to practice daily oral hygiene, including brushing and flossing to control the layers of bacteria. It is also important to visit your dentist and dental hygienist. Special tools are needed to clean the implant that will not damage its metallic structure under the gum tissue. Your dentist will need to monitor your implants to ensure that integrity is stable osseointegration, and implant crowns, bridges or dentures are working properly.