Dr. Amol Pharande
Dental and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Pune

Dental Implant treatment is the complete procedure that you go through when you undergo implants. This treatment consists of two major stages known as implant surgery and restoration. This treatment runs for minimum 3 months, but  in some cases it can stretch up to 9 months including the healing time.

Dental Implant Procedure

Given ahead are some steps which tells you as to how the entire procedure will be done:

·  Firstly, the surgeon will administer a local anesthesia to the adjacent area where the dental implant needs to be done. He will then carefully separate the soft tissues to locate the jaw bone. He will then mark the spot for drilling a hole and later the diameter of the hole will be cautiously widened to make the tooth look a little bigger.

·   The dentist will then use a metal screw to put in into a jaw bone and the screw placed in will settle inside the bone and thus will not be visible. Later, the abutment  will be ideally screwed to the screw inserted and the abutment will be visible finally. As a part of esthetic purpose, the dentist will provide a temporary covering for the abutment.

·   The surgeon will then stitch the flap cautiously and the surgery could last just for an hour if there is no inconvenience witnessed. After this part of the procedure is effectively done, the next treatment is to undergo an implant restoration.

Why One Should Undergo this Procedure?

Besides being able to smile, eat and speak better, dental implants prevent the beginning of poor facial profile as there's a loss of bone mass in your jaw bone. The implants avert the loss of bone by transmitting load forces during the chewing process down into the jawbone. The jawbone, then reacts to this loading by enhancing the bone density. Implants have the capability to stop the loss of bone and reinstate facial skeletal structure while improving the nutrition greatly. There are several adverse consequences from loss of teeth without replacement, they are:

• Difficulty in Chewing: The teeth, which are missing poses several issues in chewing that could perhaps result in indigestion
• Drifting of neighboring teeth: When there's a missing gap, opposing teeth might over-erupt neighboring teeth drift into the empty spaces resulting in food trapping and likely decay
• Bone loss and poor appearance: Loss of youthful as well as facial structure due to bone resorption  and loss of lip support as well

Do I Possess Enough Bone?  

For an implant to be successful, it's important for a patient to have adequate bone to support it. If you don't have adequate bone, there are several safe and effective ways to correct the deficiency. A good specialist will help you with this by evaluating and advising you if additional bone material is required. It could be essential for him to carry out an artificial bone replacement, sinus lift or graft from your own bone prior to the implants are placed.

Dental implants in Pune are quite natural looking and feeling and you might even forget that you ever lost a tooth. You might perhaps hide your smile as you are embarrassed by the missing teeth and might be your dentures don't feel secure. A proper surgical procedure is the correct answer for all the above feelings.