Dental Implants can be used to replace single teeth, or groups of teeth very easily.
The complexity (and cost) depends on how much gum you show when you smile, and how much bone has been lost after losing your teeth.
Sometimes, it is possible to place the dental implants and have a fixed tooth on the implants on the same day.
You can find out more by speaking to an experienced team member, and even arrange a consultation.
To do this, we will carry out a full cosmetic analysis in addition to the general implant assessment that most dentists will carry out. This lets us see if you can just have the implant, or if additional treatments would give you a better cosmetic result.
After all – I assume you only want to go through this once!
When you have several teeth missing, often you will not need single dental implants for each tooth.
Sometimes it is possible to have fewer dental implants placed, and have a bridge to connect the implants.
This way you could replace 3-4 teeth with 1-2 dental implants.
Not only does this help reduce cost and treatment time, often these solutions are easier to keep clean.
Many advances in Dental Implant design have let us safely reduce your treatment sessions and treatment times.
Whenever possible, we try to use the one-abutment-one-time concept, which allows my patients to have the dental implant and the final abutment placed in one visit.
Research has shown that this is a little bit better than placing the implant at a later date (which is the traditional way to do this).
For my patients, this means there is only one appointment where injections are needed.
It also means that including consultations and review appointments, a single tooth is often replaced in 5 visits. Most of these visits are 20-30 minutes in length.
Natural teeth are rarely white. (Although this is what many people want when having veneers)
Matching a single front tooth with an implant tooth is extremely tricky, so a skilled lab technician is needed to get the most beautiful crown.
Natural teeth have multiple colours, textures, minor cracks and lines – all of these things need to be replicated in your final smile.
To do this, we can arrange appointments so you can see the lab technician personally to have your crowns custom finished. Only once we are all happy will we fit the crown for you.
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As you can tell, there is a lot that goes into making dental implants look aesthetically perfect.
Normally the fee is in the range of £4500 – £5500 and a lot depends on how much bone grafting or gum enhancement is needed.
There are plenty of payment options available to spread the cost over a year or more.
We are able to rebuild lost bone. If you have had missing teeth for a long time, and there looks like there has been a lot of bone loss, then this can predictably be replaced using one of our reliable techniques.
Adding bone will often increase your treatment time, the number of visits and cost of treatment.
It is sometimes possible to have your implant placed, bone or gum work and tooth place on the implant in one day.
In other cases, if your treatment needs to be carried out in stages, then it can take several months to achieve your best outcome.
A lot depends on how much bone you have, how its distributed and the state of your current tooth – if there is one.
Yes, most of my clients prefer to split the cost of dental implant treatment with one of our finance options.
The most popular of these are:
0% Finance over 12 months
or
0% Finance over 24 months, with a 35% deposit
Other options are available and we can discuss these in detail with you.
Problems are rare, but can definitely happen.
We will discuss all the common risks and complications during your assessment appointment, so you are aware of them.
You will also get written material to take home which covers these.
In general, if there are complications, we will put them right, and you will not have to pay anything extra.
Complications will add to your treatment time and can be inconvenient.
You can find out more by speaking to an experienced team member, and even arrange a consultation.