With dental implants, your dentist has a permanent way to replace your missing natural teeth. At Dublin 18 Dental Rooms we can use implants to restore your smile, replacing anything from one to all of your teeth and giving you back both aesthetic appeal and realistic function.

As well as being permanent, dental implants are also the only way your dentist can replace the roots of lost teeth. Tooth roots are important not just to holding your teeth securely in your mouth, but also in maintaining the health of your jaw bone.

When the natural tooth roots are missing for some time and are not replaced, the jaw bone will start to shrink or resorb. This, combined with receding gum tissue, is the major reason that traditional dentures become loose and hard to live with.

At our Dublin Dental Room we can use dental implants to stabilise your dentures. This brings many life benefits when compared with standard false teeth, including:

• The ability to eat whatever you choose
• Being able to speak clearly
• No concerns about denture slippage, improving your self-confidence and enabling you to enjoy social activities such as Sunday lunch with the family or afternoon tea with friends
• No more denture sore mouth

The majority of patients at our Dublin Dental Room only require local anaesthetic for the placement of dental implants, which does involve minor oral surgery. Because your dentist will undertake intricate planning using the latest 3D software prior to your surgery, placing dental implants is actually pretty simple from a patient’s point of view.

Once your implants are in place, they will start to heal and mesh with your jaw bone to create a bond that is similar to that of a natural tooth root. Healing typically takes about six months, after which your Dublin dentist will attach your permanent new teeth, be they crowns, a bridge, or dentures, to abutments on top of your implants.

Dental implants are designed to be a long-term solution, and they have a very high success rate. With regular visits to our Dublin Dental Room for maintenance appointments, they should last you decades.