Are you fully aware of how dental implants in Windsor could improve your smile?
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Here at Old Windsor, we’ve always gone that extra mile for our patients to provide them with a fully tailored, bespoke dental service which meets their unique needs and desires. While a lot has changed over the last year, our commitment and dedication have remained strong and true throughout.
As the national lockdown measures ease, patients are now able, once again, to return to our practice for treatments such as dental implants in Windsor – which we’ve consistently found to have a positive and uplifting impact both on how a patient’s smile looks, and how regularly they use it.
How can dental implants in Windsor help me?
Losing a tooth is never easy – no matter how long ago the loss happened. However, what is far easier is getting the space within your mouth permanently filled with an identical-looking (and similarly strengthened) new tooth – through dental implants in Windsor.
People often make the mistake of assuming when they lose a tooth the only available options in terms of replacement are either crowns, veneers, or bridges. While all these treatments are available from our expert orthodontist here at Old Windsor, they are by no means the only option.
Dental implants are a permanently restorative orthodontic treatment that involves surgically embedding an artificial tooth root within the patient’s jawbone – onto which a new veneer is firmly fixed in place.
Addressing the issue of a lost tooth on a structural basis (rather than purely cosmetically as crowns or veneers do) means that the patient’s smile does not only appear healthy and natural, but they can also exert the same amount of force to their new tooth as they would if it were real.
This means that patients who seek dental implants can eat even the toughest foods with confidence, and smile without a care.
What does the treatment for dental implants involve?
As dental implant treatment involves a small surgical procedure, not every patient will be instantly eligible for treatment – as their gums and surrounding teeth must be healthy and infection-free for the procedure to be effective.
For this reason, we always begin every dental implant treatment with a consultation and examination of the patient’s oral health.
These consultations are a great opportunity for patients to find out more about how dental implants work, and what benefits they can expect. Also during this preliminary stage, our dentists may take photographs and digital impressions of a patient’s tooth shape to get a better understanding.
Following this, if the patient is deemed healthy enough to continue, comes the installation stage of the dental implant process.
This involves using a dental drill (while the patient is under local or general anaesthetic) to make a small hole within the patient’s jaw where the implant will be. Into this hole, our practitioner then places a titanium alloy socket, which is then sealed over and left to heal.
During the short period that follows, the titanium alloy within the socket and the patient’s natural bone tissue merge themselves together. After this fusion has happened it can be reopened again and used as a rigid and permanently in-place anchor for a denture to be attached.
If you’d like to discover more about the dental implant process or how it could potentially transform your dental future, then simply contact us here at Old Windsor today and we’ll get the ball rolling.
