Replace Your Missing Teeth with Precise and Innovative Dental Implant Replacement

Dental implants have revolutionized dentistry by offering solid, life-like, and durable teeth replacements. Once surgically inserted in the jawbone, dental implants in Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania, provide you with a lifetime of dental function and aesthetics. This way, you can eat, smile, and talk without worrying about your teeth!

Dr. Beth Skovron of Heritage Dental uses advanced technology to ensure better treatment outcomes with dental implants. With precise planning, natural-looking restorations, and diligent ongoing care, our dental implants are the closest thing to natural teeth.

High-tech dentistry for successful implantology

Proper planning is one of the steps to having a better outcome with dental implants. We use digital radiographs to examine your bone health. Potential implant beneficiaries should have adequate bone volume and density for a successful integration.

Besides radiographs, we use a 3D Dental CT scanner to take detailed images of the bone, teeth, nerves, sinuses, and other tissues. This technology allows us to identify an optimal position to place the implant. Usually, the ideal location shouldn’t be too shallow, deep, or close to the nearby teeth and definitely not close to a nerve.

Thanks to our 3D-guided dental implant surgery, dental implant treatments are predictable, efficient, and cause minimal trauma to the surrounding tissues.

The dental implant process: What to expect

Dental implants are designed to mimic your natural tooth structure. A dental implant consists of three components: the implant itself, the abutment, and the prosthetic tooth. The implant acts as the tooth root, while the abutment links the implant fixture to the dental prosthetic, which can be a crown, bridge, or denture.

Placing implants requires several months, with much of the time dedicated to healing and osseointegration (a biological process where the implant fuses with the jawbone).

Following are the steps involved in restoring your smile with dental implants:

• Initial examination: This comprehensive consultation examines your bone health, general oral health, and overall body health to determine your eligibility for dental implants. If you have insufficient jawbone, we’ll recommend bone grafting. Moreover, if you smoke, we advise you to stop because it can affect your healing
• Implant surgery: After numbing your gums with an anesthetic injectable, we use advanced technology and years of experience to place a titanium post at a precise location in the jawbone. We then place a healing cap and suture the surgical site to kick-start healing
• Healing and fusion: We leave your implant for four to six months to allow it to biointegrate with the jawbone. Once this process occurs, the dental implant becomes part and parcel of your dentition
• Abutment placement: After healing, we perform a minor surgery to replace the healing cap with an abutment (connector) that links the implant to the tooth prosthetic.
• Tooth restoration: This process involves capping off your implant with a crown, denture, or bridge, depending on the number of teeth lost. After this process, your implant will look, feel, and function like natural teeth. No more “gappy” smiles or pain when chewing

Benefits of dental implants

We love dental implants because they offer numerous benefits, including:

• Restored confidence and oral function
• Natural feel and appearance
• Lifetime durability
• Prevent bone loss
• Versatility to replace one or several teeth
• Low maintenance
• High success rate

Restoring your smile with dental implants can feel like a weighty decision.

Please call (215) 792-2227 or visit our office to talk to our friendly team. Heritage Dental wants you to wear the best version of your smile, and we’ll help you every step of the way.

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