Frequently Asked Questions About Dental Implants
What Are Dental Implants?
Dental implants are the most advanced therapy available to replace missing teeth. Dental implants are root replacements for missing teeth. Replacement teeth are created by your dentist and placed on the foundation provided by dental implants. Dental implant restorations generally look, feel and act like natural teeth.
How Do Dental Implants Work?
Dental implants are made with materials well accepted by the body. Bone forms a natural mechanical bond with the dental implants. Dental implants provide a base for your dentist to build your replacement tooth or teeth.
What Are The Benefits Of Dental Implants?
Did you know that oral health is a major factor of good general health?¹ Replacing your missing teeth with dental implants and implant crowns should allow you to live your life as if you had never suffered from missing teeth. When your dental implant treatment is complete, you should be able to chew, speak and socialize without experiencing the negative emotions that having missing teeth can sometimes cause.
Dental implants with implant crowns will help minimize the amount of bone that will be lost in the areas of missing teeth. Preserving oral bone may help maintain your remaining natural teeth and natural facial contours. Replacing your missing teeth with dental implants may also reduce your risk of having poorer nutritional habits often found in patients who do not replace missing teeth.¹
How Can Dental Implants Improve My Health?
People with missing teeth or non-implant-supported options have problems eating certain foods such as fresh vegetables and fruits, which can compromise their nutrition. Denture-wearing patients often lose some of their ability to taste foods. In addition, chewing can be difficult and painful so digestion is often compromised. Because dental implants function more like teeth, these offer the benefit of better health due to improved nutrition and taste, as well as proper digestion.
Are Dental Implants Difficult To Take Care Of?
Dental implants are designed to be a long lasting solution for tooth loss and are cared for with brushing and flossing,just like natural teeth. Caring for non-implant tooth replacements can be much less convenient compared to dental implant-supported teeth. Dental implants also eliminate the need to use messy dental adhesives.
Are Dental Implants Expensive?
Although dental implants may sometimes have a higher initial cost, when all the ongoing expenses of other treatment options are added up, most people would agree that dental implants are more than worth it!
When you contrast the time investment that dental implant therapy requires versus the repeated office visits required for adjustments, special cleanings and replacements for partials, bridges and dentures, it is easy to imagine how much better life can be with dental implants.
Am I A Candidate For Dental Implants And Implant-Retained Teeth?
Dental implants are one option for treatment of missing teeth available to you. Only your dentist can recommend a treatment option that is right for you and your unique situation, but most patients can be treated with dental implants. Your dentist will want to evaluate you carefully with an examination and x-rays and will make specific recommendations to you about the best treatment to replace your missing teeth. Ask your dentist today for more information on how you might benefit from dental implants and dental implant crowns.
Why BIOMET 3i?
BIOMET 3i was co-founded in 1987 by a periodontist and an engineer. The founding clinician believed his patients deserved better fitting and looking implant restorations than could be accomplished with available dental implant systems. From that day forward, the BIOMET 3i vision of dental implants has been increasingly predictable outcomes, improved aesthetic results and simpler, more efficient procedures all with the patient in mind. This vision has driven a pioneering series of dental implant innovations and industry firsts. Today, BIOMET 3i’s lines of dental implants, prosthetic components and regenerative products are among implant dentistry’s most comprehensive and well-received. We view these product lines as a continuum of dental implant therapy that enables clinicians to productively offer more people the benefits of dental implants. Headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with operations throughout the world, BIOMET 3i is recognized as one of the global leaders in dental implants and remains committed to achieving simplicity through innovation to give clinicians the tools to provide patients with the best dental implant therapy possible.
Reference
¹U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. U.S. Public Health Service. 2000. Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General. Washington, D.C.: GPO.
