Choosing dental implants means choosing a permanent solution to tooth loss. At Dublin 18 Dental Rooms our skilled implant dentist can use these small, titanium tooth roots to replace anything from one to all of your natural teeth, restoring both realistic action and appearance.

How dental implants work

Placing dental implants requires minor oral surgery, which is carried out in the dentist’s chair here at our Dublin dental Room, and which most people only need local anaesthetic for. Thanks to the detailed planning that goes on prior to surgery, implant placement is quite simple from a patient’s perspective.

When the dental implants are in place, they start to heal and mesh firmly with the jaw bone during a process called “osseointegration”. This takes an average of six months to complete, and sees new bone material and blood vessels growing up around the implants, so that at the end of the healing period they will have a strength very similar that to that of natural tooth roots.

Sometimes, your Dublin dentist will fit temporary teeth during the integration period. If you are having a full arch restoration (replacing all the teeth in one jaw) and currently wear a traditional denture, your dentist may adjust said denture so that you can continue to wear it until healing is complete.

At the end of the healing and integration period, you will be called back to Dublin 18 Dental Rooms so that your dentist can attach your permanent new teeth to the abutments on top of your dental implants.

These new teeth won’t just look like the real thing, they will act like them too. This alleviates common denture problems such as:

• Being restricted to a soft food or liquid diet
• Changes to or issues with your speech
• Loss of confidence and reluctance to attend social events because you’re scared your dentures will fall out.

Dental implants are designed to be a long-term solution to tooth loss. As long as you practise good oral hygiene and visit your Dublin dentist for regular check-ups and maintenance appointments, they could even last for life.