Dental Implants Cleburne

What Are Dental Implants?

A dental implant is a small, screw-shaped post that’s typically made from titanium. It’s designed to act as a replacement tooth root and is inserted directly into the jawbone, where it fuses to create a strong foundation for your new smile. One or more dental implants can be used to replace any number of missing teeth when paired with a custom-made crown, bridge, or denture. These restorations are crafted from high-quality dental porcelain to look and feel just like natural teeth, so in the end, it will be practically impossible to tell which teeth are dental implants and which are not.

A Convenient Dental Implant Process

At most other dental offices in the area, you’ll be forced to visit multiple specialists and bounce between different dental offices to successfully restore teeth with dental implants. At Long Family Dental of Cleburne, we save our patients from this exhausting hassle. Both Dr. Bob and Dr. Chris have the training and experience to perform the entire procedure themselves from beginning to end, meaning you’ll be able to get everything you need to renew your smile in one convenient location, saving you time and money every step of the way.

Guided Dental Implant Placement

When performing a very complex procedure like dental implant placement, our team doesn’t want to leave anything to chance. That’s why we use our CT scanner to formulate extremely precise treatment plans. This device is able to map out a patient’s dental anatomy in much more detail compared to a traditional X-ray. With it, we can find the perfect locations within the jawbone to place a patient’s new teeth while also avoiding sensitive nerves to ensure a fast and easy recovery.

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The Benefits of Guided Dental Implant Placement

At Long Family Dental of Cleburne, we’re dedicated to providing our patients with a positive, efficient experience that yields outstanding results, which is why we place our implants using surgical guides modeled after your cone beam CT scan. We’re one of the few practices in the area that utilizes this modern technique because it’s much more conservative and less invasive for our patients.

Instead of having us guesstimate and free-hand the surgical part of your dental implant treatment, we will meticulously plan it beforehand and create a guide. We like to describe it like doing a laparoscopic surgery versus a regular surgery. Laparoscopic surgeries carry less risks and post-operative discomfort because they’re not as invasive, just like CT-guided dental implant placement.

As a result, our patients are surprised that they experience very little pain following their procedures. In fact, in most cases, we don’t even have to prescribe pain medication, as patients are able to carry on with their normal day-to-day life the very next day after taking Tylenol or ibuprofen!

Benefits of Dental Implants

Rebuilding your teeth from the roots up instead of just replacing the missing crown (as traditional bridges and dentures do) offers a wide variety of improvements for your quality of life. Dental implants boast impressive benefits, like:

• Stability:Thanks to their strong foundation, patients never have to worry about their implants slipping or sliding out of place while they talk or eat.
• Beauty: All of our implants are topped with custom-made porcelain restorations from a local dental lab. The only people who will know which teeth aren’t real will be you and your dentist!
• Protection: Jawbone loss is one of the biggest risks associated with tooth loss, as it naturally starts to shrink when the teeth go missing. Implants can help renew blood flow to the area and even encourage the growth of new bone, which protects the foundation of the remaining teeth and helps a patient maintain their original facial shape.
• Longevity: With standard oral hygiene and dental visits, an implant is guaranteed to last for multiple decades at a time or even for the rest of a patient’s life.

Who Dental
Implants Can Help

Whether you are missing a single tooth, all of them, or a number in between, dental implants can be used to reclaim your smile. They are extremely versatile, and our team will help you choose which of the following options is best for your situation:

Missing One Tooth

An all-porcelain dental crown can be attached to a single implant root that is placed between two healthy teeth. Unlike a regular bridge, the surrounding teeth don’t need to be altered at all, better preserving a patient’s natural smile.

Missing Multiple Teeth

Implant-supported dental crowns can be positioned anywhere in the mouth as needed, and a small number of “roots” can even be used to secure a partial denture or bridge. Compared to regular dental prosthetics, those held with implants are much sturdier and less prone to breakage.

Missing All Teeth

If you are missing an entire row of teeth, we won’t need to replace each tooth with an individual implant. Instead, just four to six titanium roots are all that is needed to attach a full denture directly to the jawbone. Implant dentures feel much more natural compared to traditional ones, and they also help a patient regain more of their biting strength.

Understanding the Cost of Dental Implants

Our dental implant treatments are custom-designed for each patient based on their particular needs, and because of this, there is no fixed price for the procedure. When you come to see us for a consultation, we’ll go over all pricing information so you’ll know exactly what to expect. While dental implants do tend to cost more upfront compared to other tooth replacements, they are designed to last for decades, which often helps patients save money in the long run. In comparison, bridges and dentures usually need to be replaced every five to seven years on average.