Did You Know That Abbey Road Dental Provides The Latest Implant Treatment?
Innovative Smile Restoration – Teeth Implants In St John’s Wood
Abbey Road Dental offers leading family dentistry that helps the whole family enjoy healthy, happy smiles day to day. We provide excellent check-up services, general treatments like hygiene cleans, fillings and extractions. We also offer more detailed maintenance and preservation work like root canal therapy.
What you may not know about Abbey Road Dental is that we also offer dental implant treatment, one of the most innovative smile restoration methods currently available. Whether you have a single missing tooth, or entire arches missing, we have the right implant treatment for you. It’s particularly useful if you struggle with missing teeth, dentures or bridges and you want to get back to very natural feeling teeth once again.
Read on to find out more about our implant treatment options:
Dental Implants – Why Are They Different?
Teeth implants are perhaps the most innovative solution to replacing missing teeth currently available within modern dentistry. You may have heard of them before, but it’s good to know how they work if it is something you might consider in the future. A common misconception is that they are only replacing the tooth above the gum line, when in fact the restoration is much more complete.
The implant is a small medical grade metal device that actually replaces the tooth root, which is everything underneath the gum line. This is really important because the bone around the missing tooth gets absorbed by the body over time. It is that bone which keeps your facial structure strong and youthful. It’s the reason elderly people with lots of missing teeth lose a lot of visible facial structure when they remove their dentures.
By replacing the root with a dental implant the natural missing tooth bone absorption is slowed. The remaining teeth also stay in place and aren’t likely to move, as they would with a missing tooth that isn’t replaced. This avoids issues with misalignment and the further problems that can cause long-term.
As well as the titanium implant replacing the tooth root, it also has a little extra on top which enables the attachment of a part which connects to a fake tooth (a crown), a bridge or an implant-attached denture. This complete restoration is what makes implants so different from dentures, bridges and other dental replacements. It replaces the entire natural tooth, preventing bone resorption and also providing a strong, secure and very natural feeling tooth. With an implant, you get no wiggling or worry about the tooth falling out. It is the nearest thing to your natural teeth, which is why it’s so transformational and why here at Abbey Road Dental we are so proud to offer this option to our patients.
Why Not Bridges Or Dentures?
Many patients do really well with dentures and bridges to replace missing teeth. Here at our NW8 dentist clinic, we especially recommend having some sort of tooth replacement as soon as possible after you have an extraction, so that the remaining teeth aren’t as likely to move. It also helps with speech, eating and the maintenance of that natural confidence that we all have relating to a complete smile.
However, long-term, there are a few key issues with non-implant restoration options that commonly lead patients to choose implant surgery and they are:
- A feeling of shame during times the bridge/dentures are not placed
- Shifting of the natural teeth over time
- Shrinkage and absorption of the natural bone, causing an ageing effect
- Dentures can cause soreness
- Dentures can shift and may slip in social situations
- Dentures may cause issues with speech
- Dentures can cause challenges with what you can eat
- Some people struggle with even the most well-made bridges breaking regularly
For the above reasons, patients may feel as though there is a better option that enables them to leave those kinds of worries behind. Implants at our NW8 clinic enable patients to eat, speak and live confidently in the way they did before tooth loss, which is life-changing, particularly if you have struggled with modern dental replacement techniques and have felt there is no better way, before now.
Different Implant Options At Abbey Road Dental
Every clinic is different in the types of implant treatment they offer. There are all kinds of different implant options to suit different patient needs and requirements. At the moment we offer a complete range of implant options including:
- Single implants
- Implant supported bridges
- Implant supported dentures
- All-On-4
All of these options can offer a strong, secure, attractive and long-lasting replacement for one, multiple or entire arches of missing teeth.
What’s The Next Step?
If you are interested in implants with Abbey Road Dental it is important to know that they are not a quick fix. In fact, most treatments take many months to reach completion, and after that they require care and maintenance to help ensure they remain in great condition. Implants are so secure because they become part of your body, bonding with the bone in your jaw whilst new connective tissue grows around them. This can take a few months, allowing the body to heal in full for the best possible results.
If you are interested in this life-changing treatment, we would recommend that you first take a look at our free implant information PDF which can be downloaded here. After that, it’s a great idea to get in touch and discuss things further. We’re here to give you complete transparency about this treatment, so that you can move forward on your teeth restoration journey with all the information you need to make the right decision for you.
Please get in touch on 02076241603 for more information, or use our quick question contact form and our friendly team will be in touch right away.