With dental implants, your dentist can permanently replace your missing or failing natural teeth. At Broadway Dental Clinic in Loughton, our skilled implant team can treat even complex cases where additional procedures are needed to restore your bone density prior to implant placement.

How dental implants work

Dental implants are bionic tooth roots. Small titanium screws, they are placed directly in your jaw bone in a small operation, which is carried out by an experienced implant dentist here in the comfort of our Loughton clinic. After a healing period, your permanent new teeth are then attached to abutments on top of your implants. These may be crowns, a bridge, or dentures, depending on how many teeth need to be replaced.

Unlike other tooth replacement options such as traditional dentures or bridges, dental implants actively encourage bone growth, helping to prevent the bone degeneration that is a common side effect of having missing teeth.

The benefits of dental implants

As well as being permanent tooth replacements, and helping to prevent bone loss, implants have a number of other benefits.

Your implants and the new teeth attached to them will look very much like natural teeth, so your confidence to smile and laugh in public will soon be restored. In addition to looking like natural teeth, they will act very much like natural teeth too. Because the implants act in the same way as tooth roots, your teeth will be firmly held in place, meaning that you will be able to eat whatever you like and will not be limited to a soft food diet, which is beneficially to your general health.

Whether you have recently lost teeth, have failing teeth, or have been struggling with loose dentures for some time, the dental implants team at our Loughton clinic will soon have you smiling again.