Dental Implants

What are dental implants?

Dental implants are replacement tooth roots. They are made up of very high grade titanium screws. Dental implants provide a strong foundation for fixed (permanent) or removable replacement teeth that are made to match your natural teeth.

If you've lost teeth due to trauma or periodontal disease, it may still be possible to replace them with dental implants. There are so many advantages to replacing one or all of your missing teeth with dental implants that this treatment has become the therapy of choice. Even if you've lost supporting bone, many times it's possible to use a bone graft to restore the bone and then place the implants later.

Why we should not ignore missing or damaged teeth?

Physical Health

Healthy teeth help maintain a nutritious diet

Emotional health

Healthy, beautiful teeth and self confidence go hand in hand

Esthetic improvements

Healthy teeth help maintain your natural facial appearance

Are implants the answer for your missing teeth?

Do you suffer from a single missing tooth?

Or multiple missing teeth?

Or you have no teeth at all?

is your denture loose?

Have you also heard of tooth in a day?

What are the advantages of dental implants?

Improved appearance

Dental implants look and feel like your own teeth. And because they are designed to fuse with bone, they become permanent.

Improved speech

With poor-fitting dentures, the teeth can slip within the mouth causing you to mumble or slur your words. Dental implants allow you to speak without the worry that teeth might slip.

Improved comfort

Because they become part of you, implants eliminate the discomfort of removable dentures.

Easier eating

Sliding dentures can make chewing difficult. Dental implants function like your own teeth, allowing you to eat your favorite foods with confidence and without pain.

Improved self-esteem

Dental implants can give you back your smile and help you feel better about yourself.

Improved oral-health

Dental implants don't require reducing other teeth, as a tooth-supported bridge does. Because nearby teeth are not altered to support the implant, more of your own teeth are left intact, improving long-term oral health. Individual implants also allow easier access between teeth, improving oral hygiene.

Durability

Implants are very durable and will last many years. With good care, many implants last a lifetime.

Convenience

Removable dentures are just that; removable. Dental implants eliminate the embarrassing inconvenience of removing dentures, as well as the need for messy adhesives to keep them in place.

How are dental implants done?

Having assessed the quality and quantity of the underlying bone, the faciomaxillary surgeon will place the implants into the jaws. This surgical procedure is usually done under local anaesthesia. The healing time of about 3 to 6 months is then given to allow the implant to integrate into the jaw bone. In the third stage, the prosthodontist will fix the crown and bridge or the denture to the implants.

How successful are dental implants?

Success rates of dental implants vary, depending on where in the jaw the implants are placed but, in general, dental implants have a success rate of up to 95 to 98%. With proper care dental implants can last a lifetime. However Smoking, uncontrolled diabetes, severe osteoporosis and other major medical problems will reduce the chances of implant integration into the jaw bone and success.

Dental Implants

What are Dental Implants?

Dental Implants are screws made of titanium.  These are used to replace missing teeth.  They are surgically placed in the missing tooth region in your upper or lower jaw bone.  These get osseointegrated (integrated into the bone) into your jaw bone after a few months.  After which the crowns are fitted on these titanium tooth roots.  Hence replacement of missing teeth has become very effective and comfortable.

Single or multiple teeth that are lost can be easily replaced with dental implants.

Loose dentures upper or lower can be replaced with all of 4 or all 6 dental implants which work out to be a very strong way of replacing your loose dentures with strongly fixed implant overdentures.

Suffering from loose lower dentures?

Trefoil implants done at Mukha facial surgery can be the solution for your loose dentures.  Trefoil, as the name suggests, are 3 implants placed in the lower jaw by a new technique in which the lower jaw is trimmed and these three implants are placed and immediately a lower fixed implant overdenture is provided, making it very cost effective and also very effective fixed lower denture for patients.  Dr. Girish Rao at Mukha has been the first surgeon in India carrying out such treatment for providing this cost-effective solutions to patients suffering from loose lower dentures.  

T tooth in a day is technique practiced by Dr Girish Rao at Mukha facial surgery for  replacement of missing teeth by dental implants and also providing the crown over it on the same day.  Patients come in to Mukha clinic with no teeth or a few teeth and walk out with full mouth rehabilitation done using dental implants.  This is very effective for people coming to Bangalore from overseas as it is very quick and effective tooth replacement solution provided at Mukha, Bangalore.

Placement of Dental Implants sometimes is not possible in patients who have severe bone loss in the upper or lower jaw.  In such conditions, Dr Girish Rao at Mukha carries out advanced surgical treatments such as Sinus lifts, Bone grafts, Ridge splits and hence able to provide patients Dental Implant solutions which are very successful.

Patients suffering from ectodermal dysplasia and also with other facial deformities also are being helped by Dr Girish Rao by procedures such as Pterygoid implants, Zygomatic Implants etc. 

Dr Girish Rao and his team at Mukha are the pioneers in Impant Dentistry in India.  People from all over the country and also from over seas having been getting Dental Implant Treatment from Mukha Facial Surgery, Bangalore.

Dr Girish Rao and Mukha team believes in providing the best and the latest  dental implant treatment to their patients so that the quality of life of patients become better.  They eat well and become healthy and live longer.