Dental implants represent the most modern solution for replacing missing teeth. They restore the look, feel and function of natural teeth. Modern implantology is a surgical technique that involves the insertion of titanium pins (biocompatible material for the body) into the mandibular or maxillary bone, which replace the natural roots of the teeth.
Dental implantology today allows us to cope with the loss of natural teeth by restoring the patient’s smile in a perfectly functional and aesthetically natural way.
The use of dental implantology allows for a fixed rehabilitation of chewing, avoiding the discomfort associated with the use of removable prostheses (dentures).
After tooth extraction, the bone begins to resorb with the consequent loss of bone quantity causing a series of problems:
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The lip support is missing
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The vertical dimension of the occlusion is reduced
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Pronounced wrinkles appear around the lips
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Problems relating to the temporomandibular joints arise
If you are missing one, two or more teeth you are a candidate for dental implant installation. The first step is the creation of an overview, during the examination for implant treatment, both the condition and quality of the bone where the implants will be installed, and then the other teeth and the soft tissues of the oral cavity are evaluated. In some cases it may be necessary to have a CT scan.
During the first surgical phase (under local anesthesia or on request under conscious sedation), titanium implants are inserted into the edentulous areas of the jaw bones and once the gingival tissues are saturated, the implants remain submerged. After the 3/6 month healing period, the titanium healing screws are positioned and subsequently replaced by pins where the porcelain crowns will be cemented or screwed in, as if they were stumps of natural teeth.
Osseointegration allows the implants to be incorporated into the bone in which they were positioned. Implants compensate for lost teeth, grow around them and function like your natural teeth by replacing the function of the chewing system that you had before the tooth loss. Crowns and bridges on implants look like natural teeth.
Single tooth replacement
In the absence of a front tooth, implants represent the best performing aesthetic solution that lasts over time: in this case the healthy adjacent teeth are not touched or involved.
Replacing multiple teeth
Porcelain crowns anchored by multiple implants are used with a bridge supported by two or more implants.
Replacement of all teeth
Using a fixed bridge on several implants with removable denture anchored on two-four or more implants.
All on six Solutions
This is a very reliable and fast new generation procedure created to rehabilitate a toothless mouth with 4 or 6 implants and a fixed prosthesis.
The use of this prosthetic technique allows, thanks to the grafting of the implants, to install a temporary fixed bridge immediately after the grafting of 4 or 6 endosseous implants per jaw during the same session. A few months after the insertion of the implants, once the osteointegration period has passed, it is possible to replace the temporary bridge with the definitive one.
Maxillary sinus lift
It is an advanced surgical technique. Bone reconstruction of the upper jaw often represents a mandatory phase before proceeding with an implant rehabilitation procedure.
Bone grafting procedures are necessary to restore the bone volumes necessary for implant-prosthetic rehabilitation.
The maxillary sinus is a bony cavity located at the side of the nasal cavities with which it is in direct contact. Inferiorly this cavity borders the roots of the upper posterior teeth. When teeth are lost, the lack of them induces resorption of the bone, resulting in a reduction in the thickness of the bone wall that separates the sinus and the oral cavity. In these cases, in order to still be able to proceed with the insertion of implants, it is possible to perform a maxillary sinus lift by inserting new bone at the level of the sinus itself capable of recreating that dimension that has been lost over time.
