Implants

1.  What are the differences between an implant and a classic dental work?

The dental implant has more advantages than the classic work, one of these being the lack of intervention (polishing) on the nearby healthy teeth.
The first stage of inserting a dental implant is the surgical one and it implies preparing a cavity on the bone level, perfectly shaped for the implant dimension, and in this cavity the implant will be inserted, by screwing it. The dental implant is practically a Titanium screw which has a surface which is chemically and mechanically treated so that the surface which contacts the bone is extended. In the following stage, called osteointegration, which lasts between 3 and 6 months, the osseous cells deposit bone on the implant surface, ensuring stability and maximum resistance over time. Once the implant is osteointegrated, the next step is prosthesing. On this stage a superstructure is mounted on the implant level, which is the correspondent of the polished tooth and which will be further on covered by the porcelain crown. Another important intermediary stage is the formation of the gum around the superstructure mounted on the dental implant, which is executed on the healing prepared teeth. The impression method for a dental work on implants is different from the impression for classic dental works and it is executed with transfer prepared teeth which give the technician details about the exact position of the dental implants on the bone and about the width of the gum around the implant; the technician will also have to simulate in the laboratory the patient’s gum made of a type of rubber which has a resilience similar to the one of the natural gums. The polishing of the superstructure which is mounted on the dental implant is executed ONLY IN THE DENTAL TECHNIQUE LAB, and never in the patient’s mouth because it gets very hot and it might produce necrosis on the cells which are adjacent to the dental implant and this way it might compromise the final result.
The latest procedure in implantology is using the Zirconium dental implant. This has several advantages as compared to the Titanium implant both from the biocompatibility and esthetic point of view, being considered the future implant in dentistry.
The procedure of dental implant insertion is not painful at all, either during of after the operation, and the aesthetic and functional results are excellent.
At Dental Progress, we guarantee that we use the best dental implants and the most modern surgery techniques applied by the best doctors in the dentistry field.