Dental implant is an artificial tooth root that a dentist places into your jaw to hold a replacement tooth or bridge. Dental implants are an ideal option for people in good general oral health who have lost a tooth or teeth due to periodontal disease, an injury, or some other reason.
While high-tech in nature, dental implants are actually more tooth-saving than traditional bridgework, since implants do not rely on neighboring teeth for support.
Dental implants are so natural-looking and feeling, you may forget you ever lost a tooth. You know that your confidence about your teeth affects how you feel about yourself, both personally and professionally. Perhaps you hide your smile because of spaces from missing teeth. Maybe your dentures don't feel secure. Perhaps you have difficulty chewing. If you are missing one or more teeth and would like to smile, speak and eat again with comfort and confidence, there is good news! Dental implants are teeth that can look and feel just like your own! Under proper conditions implants can last a lifetime. Long-term studies continue to show improving success rates for implants.
What Dental Implants Can Do?
Replace one or more teeth without affecting bordering teeth. Support a bridge and eliminate the need for a removable partial denture. Provide support for a denture, making it more secure and comfortable.
Types of Implants in Use Today
Endosteal (in the bone): This is the most commonly used type of implant. The various types include screws, cylinders or blades surgically placed into the jawbone. Each implant holds one or more prosthetic teeth. This type of implant is generally used as an alternative for patients with bridges or removable dentures.
Subperiosteal (on the bone): These are placed on top of the jaw with the metal framework's posts protruding through the gum to hold the prosthesis. These types of implants are used for patients who are unable to wear conventional dentures and who have minimal bone height.
Advantages of Dental Implants Over Dentures or a Bridge
Every way you look at it, dental implants are a better solution to the problem of missing teeth.
Esthetic- Dental implants look and feel like your own teeth! Since dental implants integrate into the structure of your bone, they prevent the bone loss and gum recession that often accompany bridgework and dentures. No one will ever know that you have a replacement tooth.
Tooth-saving- Dental implants don't sacrifice the quality of your adjacent teeth like a bridge does because neighboring teeth are not altered to support the implant. More of your own teeth are left untouched, a significant long-term benefit to your oral health!
Confidence -Dental implants will allow you to once again speak and eat with comfort and confidence! They are secure and offer freedom from the irksome clicks and wobbles of dentures. They'll allow you to say goodbye to worries about misplaced dentures and messy pastes and glues.
Reliable - The success rate of dental implants is highly predictable. They are considered an excellent option for tooth replacement.
Various procedures are under taken for smile makeover.
Veneers
Dental veneers are custom-designed shells of tooth-like ceramic material that, when applied over the surface of a tooth, can cover worn tooth enamel, uneven tooth alignment or spacing and chips or cracks. Dental veneers fall into the category of cosmetic dentistry because they create a bright, white smile with beautifully aligned, shapely teeth. Even better, the translucent ceramic quality of today's veneers provides a more natural look than what's been available in the past. Regardless of what causes unattractive teeth,
dental veneers may solve most or even all of your cosmetic dental issues.
Tooth Bonding Bonding is achieved using the tooth coloured composite resin filling material usually used to repair cavities. This procedure is ideal for improving the look of chipped, worn, or slightly crooked front teeth. Bonded teeth are a conservative and effective way to improve your smile. They do need occasional repair or repolishing and the color stability varies greatly depending on individual habits (tea drinking, smoking, etc...).
Dental bonding is a procedure in which a tooth-colored resin material (a durable plastic material) is applied and hardened with a special light, which ultimately "bonds" the material to the tooth to restore or improve person's smile.
For What Conditions Is Dental Bonding Considered?
To repair decayed teeth (composite resins are used to fill cavities)
To repair chipped or cracked teeth.
To improve the appearance of discolored teeth.
To close spaces between teeth.
To make teeth look longer.
To change the shape of teeth.
As a cosmetic alternative to amalgam fillings.
To protect a portion of the tooth's root that has been exposed when gums recede.
We ensure a pain-free experience for the most ‘dreaded’ procedure in dentistry. Moreover we also carry out this procedure in a single sitting for patient comfort and convenience.
Know about Root Canal treatment
Your tooth consists of two main parts: the crown, which is the area of the tooth above the gum and visible in your mouth; and the root or roots, the area of the tooth that lies beneath the gum and is surrounded by bone. Inside each root is a channel that runs the length of the tooth. This channel is the root canal and contains the pulp (nerves, blood vessels, and soft tissue), which is often referred to as the "nerve" of the tooth. The pulp may be irreversibly damaged by bacteria associated with decay, very deep restorations, fractures, trauma, or periodontal disease.
To preserve a tooth when this has occurred it is necessary to remove the diseased pulp tissue. This procedure is known as endodontic therapy. Since endodontic therapy is concerned with removing only the pulp from the root canal, the root will continue to function normally because the supporting tissues remain intact. It is advisable to remove the injured pulp because it may become infected or act as an irritant to the tissues surrounding the tooth.
Root canal treatment is a procedure that removes exposed or infected nerves from the root of the tooth and then the canal is cleaned and widened with the help of instruments and then sealed with a sterile material. The tooth after the root canal treatment will remain non vital but acts as a functioning tooth.
Crowns - The portion of a tooth that is covered by enamel, that is above the gum line. Also a dental restoration that covers the entire tooth and restores it to its original shape.
Bridge - A non-removable restoration that is used to replace missing teeth.
Various options of crown design and material are available.
Various options of denture design and material are available
Complete Dentures These replace all of your teeth, upper or lower. Their comfort depends on muscle, bones, tongue, and saliva. Patients begin wearing conventional dentures after healing the teeth that were pulled
Immediate Dentures Immediate Dentures are placed all at once, and may require additional adjustments after the healing process. It can take months for your bone and tissue to stabilize after tooth extractions.
Upper Dentures
Upper Dentures tend to be a bit easier to adjust to. These are made of the same materials as a Complete Denture, but are designed to provide you with upper teeth only.
Over Dentures
Over Dentures is a type of conventional denture similar to Complete Dentures. The difference is that not all teeth are extracted and they use one or more natural teeth for their support. This type provides greater stabilization during chewing. Over Dentures cost more and typically require more preparation dental appointments until the procedure is fully complete.
Partial Dentures Designed to correct the gaps in your smile when only some of your teeth are missing. Metal attachments anchor the dentures to your natural teeth. Partial Dentures maintain tooth alignment by preventing your remaining teeth from shifting. Partial Dentures can also help prevent your loss of more teeth due to decay or gum disease.
Periodontal (gum) diseases, including gingivitis and periodontitis, are serious infections that, left untreated, can lead to tooth loss. The word periodontal literally means "around the tooth."
Periodontal disease is a chronic bacterial infection that affects the gums and bone supporting the teeth. Periodontal disease can affect one tooth or many teeth. It begins when the bacteria in plaque (the sticky, colorless film that constantly forms on your teeth) causes the gums to become inflamed.
In the mildest form of the disease, gingivitis, the gums redden, swell and bleed easily. There is usually little or no discomfort. Gingivitis is often caused by inadequate oral hygiene. Gingivitis is reversible with professional treatment and healthy oral home care.
Untreated gingivitis can advance to periodontitis. With time, plaque can spread and grow below the gum line. Toxins produced by the bacteria in plaque irritate the gums. The toxins stimulate a chronic inflammatory response in which the body in essence turns on itself, and the tissues and bone that support the teeth are broken down and destroyed. Gums separate from the teeth, forming pockets (spaces between the teeth and gums) that become infected. As the disease progresses, the pockets deepen and more gum tissue and bone are destroyed. Often, this destructive process has very mild symptoms. Eventually, teeth can become loose and may have to be removed.
There are many forms of periodontal disease.
These are most common:
Gingivitis
Gingivitis is the mildest form of periodontal disease. It causes the gums to become red, swollen, and bleed easily. There is usually little or no discomfort at this stage. Gingivitis is reversible with professional treatment and healthy oral home care.
Aggressive Periodontitis
A form of periodontitis that occurs in patients who are otherwise clinically healthy. Common features include rapid attachment loss and bone destruction and familial aggregation.
Chronic Periodontitis
Form of periodontal disease resulting in inflammation within the supporting tissues of the teeth, progressive attachment and bone loss and is characterized by pocket formation and/or recession of the gingiva. It is recognized as the most frequently occurring form of periodontitis. It is prevalent in adults, but can occur at any age. Progression of attachment loss usually occurs slowly, but periods of rapid progression can occur.
Periodontitis as a Manifestation of Systemic Diseases Periodontititis, often when occuring at a young age is associated with one of several systemic iseases, such as diabetes.
Necrotizing Periodontal Diseases
An infection characterized by necrosis of gingival tissues, periodontal ligament and alveolar bone. These lesions are most commonly observed in individuals with systemic conditions including, but not limited to, HIV infection, malnutrition and immunosuppression.
You could be having a gum problem if you complain of one of the following symptoms: • Bleeding gums
• Foul breath.
• Loose shaky teeth
• Lodging of food between the teeth
• Spacing between the teeth
If you do, then you need to check your gum condition.
Treatments
Treatment will depend upon the type of periodontal disease and how far the condition has progressed.
1. Oral Hygiene
2. Scaling and Root Planning
3. Periodontal Scaling
4. Bone or Gingival Augmentation
5. Guided Tissue Regeneration
6. Soft Tissue Grafts
7. Bone Grafts
8. Crown Lengthening
9. Gingival Curettage
10. Gingivectomy
11. Gingivoplasty
If a taste of ice cream or a sip of coffee is sometimes painful or if brushing or flossing makes you wince occasionally, you may have a common problem: "sensitive teeth".
Some of the causes include tooth decay, a cracked tooth, worn tooth enamel, worn fillings and tooth roots that are exposed as a result of aggressive tooth brushing, gum recession and periodontal (gum) disease.
Sensitive teeth can be treated. Depending on the cause, your dentist may suggest you try desensitizing toothpaste, which contains compounds that help block sensation travelling from the tooth surface to the nerve. Desensitizing toothpaste usually requires several applications before sensitivity is reduced. If the desensitizing toothpaste does not ease your discomfort, your dentist may suggest in office treatments.
A fluoride gel or special desensitizing agents may be applied to the sensitive areas of the affected teeth. When these measures do not correct the problem, your dentist may recommend other treatments, such as a filling, a crown, an inlay or boding to correct a flaw or decay that creates the sensitivity.
The type of treatment will depend on what is causing the sensitivity. If gum tissue has been lost from the root (gum recession), your dentist may recommend a surgical gum graft to cover the root, protect the tooth and reduce the sensitivity. In cases of severe and persistent hypersensitivity that cannot be treated by other means, your dentist may recommend endodontic (root canal) treatment to eliminate the discomfort.
We believe and emphasize that prevention is the key. The following treatments can help both children and adults in preventing tooth decay and gum problems:
• Sealants – help seal off dental grooves thus minimizing tooth decay • Fluorides - if done regularly every 6 months strengthen the tooth against decay • Periodic 6 monthly follow up visits - help us detect any recurring dental problems • Good Oral Hygiene procedures – once indicated by us and if followed diligently will
go a long way in maintaining good oral health
Tooth coloured filings were first introduced to the North American public in the mid 1960's. Since then tooth coloured filling materials have undergone continual improvements in durability, esthetics and material handling. The most versatile and widely used tooth coloured filling today is composite resin filling. A composite is a material in which filler particles are encased in and bound together by a hard matrix material. For composite resin fillings a fluid matrix of an acrylic, called BIS-GMA, is hardened around glass filler particles to form composite resin.
Tooth coloured fillings are dental fillings that restore and mimic the natural appearance of tooth structure. In addition to restoring teeth that have fractured or decayed, tooth coloured filings may also be used cosmetically to change the size, colour and shape of teeth. This quality is particularly useful in closing gaps between teeth, repairing chipped teeth and making teeth appear to be more straight or even.
Many long term scientific studies show retained and impacted third molars cause chronic inflammation which can affect the adjacent teeth and possibly your general health. Early removal of wisdom teeth, prior to completion of root formation, can decrease complications such as numbness in lip or tongue and sinus penetration. Early removal can result in more complete healing of adjacent tissues. Other benefits of early removal include less periodontal disease, fewer orthodontic crowding problems, fewer acute painful infections, less chronic inflammation and fewer cystic formations.
Dentist -supervised tooth whitening involves the controlled use of carbamide or hydrogen peroxide, specific to the needs of each patient. Your Dentist may provide in-office tooth whitening treatments or at-home tooth whitening treatments. Before the tooth whitening treatment, most dentists clean the teeth, fill any cavities, and make sure the patient's gums are healthy.
Most in-office systems use 15 to 35 percent hydrogen peroxide gels, sometimes coupled with a high intensity light to expedite the bleaching chemical reaction. (Some recent research has questioned the need and effectiveness of the light source used during in-office tooth whitening.)
Please ask us about tooth whitening on your next visit to find out if this procedure is for you.
Though extraction would be our last option as we believe in preserving all teeth, we once again assure you of a ‘pain-free’ experience during tooth extraction.
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