While dental implants are typically a two-stage treatment, the procedure is often split into five parts: consultation, placement, osseointegration (healing), abutment placement, and final restoration.
After Dr Wadher surgically places the dental implant, you’ll have to wait 3-6 months for it to heal and fuse fully with the bone in the jaw. Patients are typically invited back around month three so we can check their progress and schedule the next steps.
- The procedure is pain-free and carried out local anaesthetic chairside. Sedation is optional.
- In straightforward cases, the implant can be placed in one hour.
- In some scenarios, it might also be possible to perform a tooth extraction simultaneously. However, this will often have to happen before your procedure.
- Using certain dental implant systems, we can load a temporary crown, bridge, or denture, but this is often case-dependent.
Without a good volume of bone in the jaw, the dental implant is at risk for failure, so the implant dentist, Dr Wadher, and the prosthodontist, Dr Keyhani, will thoroughly assess the jawbone’s density during your first appointment.
If you have insufficient bone to support the implant, pre-prosthetic procedures like bone augmentations and sinus lifts might be required to make you a viable candidate.