Beyond their excellent stability and very natural appearance, dental implants offer another major advantage: versatility. No matter how many teeth are missing, several implant solutions exist to restore your smile\u2014both functionally and aesthetically. Our general dentists, trained to offer complete implantology services, prepared this article to present the replacement options made possible through dental implants.<\/p>\n
A dental implant is a small titanium screw. During an in-clinic surgical procedure planned with great precision, the implant is inserted directly into the jawbone. To do this, a small incision is made in the gum, which is then closed with sutures.<\/p>\n
The healing phase follows and takes several months. New bone cells form around the implant (osseointegration), allowing it to fuse securely with the jawbone. This is why implants effectively replace the roots of missing teeth by mimicking their natural characteristics.<\/p>\n
Dental implants can serve as anchors for different types of dental restorations.<\/p>\n
To replace a single missing tooth, an implant can support a dental crown. The crown is a prosthetic tooth made of ceramic using CEREC technology. The implant must be fully healed before the crown is designed and placed. The steps are usually as follows:<\/p>\n
An implant bridge can replace up to four adjacent missing teeth using only two implants. A bridge is a prosthetic restoration made of several ceramic replacement teeth. The procedure generally includes:<\/p>\n
This option is effective and minimally invasive. There is no need to reshape the neighbouring teeth, and the stability offered is excellent.<\/p>\n
An implant-supported denture can be partial\u2014when several non-adjacent teeth on the same arch are missing\u2014or complete, to replace an entire upper and\/or lower arch. The standard procedure includes:<\/p>\n
Au-del\u00e0 de l\u2019excellente stabilit\u00e9 et de l\u2019apparence tr\u00e8s naturelle des implants dentaires, on leur associe un autre avantage consid\u00e9rable : leur polyvalence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\n