Dental Implants-affordable and safe

Definition:By dental implant we mean, placement of artificial tooth root that a periodontist places into the patient’s jaw for holding a replacement tooth. The structure includes straight titanium abutment and a non-precious ceramic crown.

There are two types of dental implants namely osseointegrated and fibrointegrated. With the recent developments in the field of dental implant, osseointegrated dental implant is gaining popularity, because they are safer and are more advanced.

Causes:
There are four major causes that lead to dental implants. These include:

• Old age: with age, teeth start getting worn, leading to tooth loss. This creates problem in eating and hence digestion, also. To make the jaw more functional, people take help of dental implant.
• Disease: certain diseases related to tooth or gums result in measure tooth loss thereby leading to inappropriate functioning of gums. Also they create a bad sight for that patient. In such cases dental implants come to rescue.
• Accident: many accidents result in injury of jaw so much so that teeth are also broken. In such cases, dental implants replace loss of teeth and improve upon face structure as well.
• Enhanced look: fashion field needs beauty in absolute terms. Models and actresses go for dental implants to boost their confidence by having a perfect jaw structure and beautiful teeth.

Pre-requisites:
There are certain pre-requisites to dental implants. These are necessary steps to be taken as dental implant involves surgery.

• Medical History of the patient up to minutest detail
• Panoramic X-Ray
• Study Models
• Blood Pressure and pulse rate
• Blood Test including blood sugar and Liver function test
• CT scan or Dentascan to get a clear picture of the place to work in. 

Advantages:

• Improves Aesthetic appearance of the mouth and face
• Do not interfere with bordering teeth.
• Enhanced functioning of the jaw
• Safe, most precise, predictable, therefore preferred tooth replacement option
• Natural looking and feeling teeth to make the patient forget lose of tooth
• Confidence boosters as the face gets absolutely new look along with beautiful teeth
• Provides support for a denture making it secure and comfortable
• Can easily be carried out with single tooth or several teeth with equal ease