Dental implants don’t just replace your teeth – they bring with them several benefits for your dental and general health. At Broadway Dental Clinic in Loughton we offer implant treatment to patients who have lost one or more of their teeth. Thanks to the skill of our implant dentist, we can even treat more complex cases where some degree of bone resorbtion has already occurred.

How dental implants differ to other tooth replacement options

Standard dental bridgework and traditional dentures only replace the crowns of missing teeth. But natural teeth comprise both crowns and roots, and when nothing replaces the roots, the jaw bone begins to resorb (shrink back). This is the primary cause of a lot of issues with loose dentures, and is also likely to cause sagging of the facial skin, changes to the appearance of the lips and, in some cases, of the face in general.

Dental implants are bionic, titanium tooth roots. They will hold a crown, bridge, or denture securely in place with strength similar to that of natural tooth roots, and will also stop bone loss, because they encourage bone growth.

Unlike tradition bridges and dentures, which will need to be replaced, dental implants and the teeth attached to them are designed to be permanent. As long as you come back to our Loughton dental practice for regular follow-up and maintenance appointments, your implants could last you for life.

The advantages of choosing dental implants are numerous, and include. . .

• Holding your teeth firmly in place, so that you can eat what you choose, helping you to enjoy a healthy and varied diet.
• Enabling you to speak with confidence.
• Stopping bone loss and premature sagging of the facial skin.
• Letting you get on with your life, without the constant worry of slipping dentures.

Loughton dental implants

Many patients at our Loughton dental practice only need local anaesthetic for the placement of dental implants, although conscious sedation is also available for nervous patients or those undergoing longer procedures.

After a healing period during which your implants integrate with your jaw bone, permanent dentures, bridgework, or crowns will be attached.

Dental implants bring with them numerous benefits, not just for your oral health but also for your general wellbeing. At Broadway Dental in Loughton we offer a number of implant solutions, designed to restore the full functionality of a jaw of healthy teeth, as well as a beautiful smile.

How dental implants work

With dental implants, your dentist has a permanent way to replace one or more missing teeth. Implants are bionic tooth roots, made out of titanium and placed in direct contact with your jaw bone in a minor oral surgical procedure, which is carried out under either local anaesthetic or sedation at our modern Loughton dental practice.

Once in position, your dental implants integrate with your jaw bone and help to prevent the issue of bone loss that is commonly seen in patients with all or several of their natural teeth missing. After a healing period of few months, your dentist will attach permanent new teeth – a crown, a bridge, or dentures – to the abutments on top of your implants, creating restorations that look and function very much like their natural counterparts.

Dental implants and your oral and general health

Unlike traditional dentures, which often become loose, unwieldy, and uncomfortable, the new teeth attached to your dental implants will stay firmly in position at all times. This means that you will face no restrictions on your diet, so you can easily maintain good nutrition – which is essential for your overall health and wellbeing.

Traditional dental bridgework usually requires extensive preparatory work on the teeth adjacent to the gap left behind by a missing tooth or teeth. Often this can involve the loss of healthy tooth structure so that crowns can be placed.

Implant-retained bridges don’t need any work on your remaining natural teeth, because the bridge is fully supported by your dental implant. This helps to ensure that those natural teeth stay healthy and strong.

With proper aftercare, including regular visits to our Loughton dental practice for maintenance appointments, your implants and the new teeth attached to them should last you for many years.

To book dental implants consultation in Loughton, get in touch today.

An increasing number of patients are using dental implants to put a stop to common denture problems. At Broadway Dental Care in Loughton we offer denture stabilisation as one of our many implant procedures, designed to give you back teeth that both look and act like their natural counterparts – and providing you with a functional smile that could last for the rest of your life.

The problem with traditional dentures

Modern dentures are highly realistic in terms of both appearance and function, yet many patients still find themselves struggling as their false teeth become progressively looser. This can cause a range of problems, making it difficult to eat anything but soft foods (so making it harder to maintain your nutrition), affecting your speech, and damaging your confidence if your teeth become so loose they are prone to falling out.

Dentures rubbing on your gums can be very uncomfortable, sometimes painful, and you are likely to find yourself making frequent trips to the dentist to have your dentures adjusted or relined.

Many of these problems are caused by bone loss. When the roots of the teeth are missing, the jaw bone starts to resorb, causing your dentures to become loose.

Loughton dental implants

Dental implants prevent these common denture problems because they are bionic tooth roots, made from titanium and put in direct contact with your jaw bone. This requires minor surgery, carried out here at our Loughton dental practice in a safe and painless procedure that usually only needs local anaesthetic.

Not only will your dental implants hold your dentures securely in place, they’ll also help to stop the problems associated with bone loss because titanium actively promotes bone growth.

For patients who have already experienced some degree of bone loss, we offer procedures at our Loughton dental clinic to rebuild you bone density prior to the placement of your dental implants.

Once your implants have meshed with your jaw bone and your dentures have been attached to them, you will still be able to remove the denture for cleaning, but otherwise it will stay exactly where it should, restoring full functionality to your mouth.

Using dental implants, a dentist can give you back so much more than just a beautiful smile. At Broadway Dental in Loughton, we can use implants combined with a bridge, crowns, or dentures to replace anything from one to all of your natural teeth – restoring full functionality to your jaw.

Dental implants are small titanium screws that replace the root portions of one or more missing teeth. A dentist places them in direct contact with your jaw bone in a minor operation, which we can carry out under local anaesthetic or conscious sedation here at our modern Loughton dental practice. After a healing period, crowns, a denture, or a dental bridge are then attached on top.

Implants are the only way your dentist can replace the roots of teeth, and the only permanent tooth replacement option. When tooth roots are missing for some time, the jaw bone is likely to start shrinking back. This can make the future placement of dental implants more complex (although by no means impossible) and is the primary reason that traditional dentures become loose.

Loose dentures bring with them a host of problems: difficulty speaking clearly, difficulty eating anything but soft foods, and a negative impact on your confidence if you fear your dentures could fall out.

By choosing dental implants, you can avoid or alleviate all of these common denture woes. They help to prevent bone loss and hold your teeth firmly in place at all times.

• After successful implant treatment you will enjoy:
• The ability to eat whatever you want
• The ability to speak and smile confidently
• No more anxiety about your teeth falling out.

Patients who have experienced bone loss

At our Loughton dental practice, our skilled implant team can help patients who have already suffered bone loss. Depending on your needs we may recommend a bone graft or sinus lift prior to implant placement. This will maximise the chances of your implants’ success.

When you come to our Loughton clinic for your initial dental implants consultation, your dentist will use scans and x-rays to assess your current level of bone density.

Dental implants are a modern, permanent solution to tooth loss. At Broadway Dental in Loughton we are keen to stress that missing teeth should always be replaced, and believe that in many cases implants are the perfect way to do so.

The advantages of dental implants

If you’ve lost one or more teeth, you should contact your dentist as soon as possible to discuss tooth replacement. To do otherwise risks both your dental and general health, with common side-effects of tooth loss including more strain being put on any remaining teeth (which can become crooked and harder to clean if they move into gaps), difficulties in eating chewy or solid foods, problems with speech, and a negative impact on your self-confidence.

An additional complication of losing several teeth is bone shrinkage. When many or all of the natural teeth are lost from one jaw, the jaw bone can start to resorb, which can make placing dental implants more complex in the future, can cause your dentures to become loose, and can lead to sagging of the skin around the face and jowls.

Dental implants are the only tooth replacement option that addresses the problem of bone loss. Small titanium screws that your dentist places directly in your jaw bone in a small operation, carried out here at our Loughton practice, implants replace the roots of teeth. They support bone growth and ensure that your new teeth – dentures, a bridge, or crowns – stay firmly in place, enabling you to eat what you like, to smile, speak, and laugh with confidence, and with no fear of your new teeth becoming loose or falling out.

Loughton dental implants

The dental implants team at our Loughton practice can use these bionic tooth roots to replace one, some, or even all of your natural teeth. When you come for a consultation with an implant dentist, they will examine you and discuss the number of implants you will need.

Every patient’s needs are different, but in many cases you won’t need as many dental implants as new teeth. A single dental implant can usually support several teeth in the form of a bridge or denture.

With dental implants, a dentist can restore much more than just a beautiful, natural-looking smile. At Broadway Dental in Loughton our skilled implantology team can use implants to replace one, some, or even all of your natural teeth.

The benefits of dental implants

There are many benefits of using dental implants to replace missing teeth when compared with traditional bridgework and dentures. Two of the key points to remember if you are considering your tooth replacement options is that implants are the only permanent tooth replacement option – they can last a lifetime if you take good care of them and visit the hygienist and dentist regularly – and they are the only way to replace tooth roots.

When teeth are missing it’s not just the visible crowns that are lost, but the roots beneath too. Without the roots in place, the jaw bone starts to resorb, shrinking back and losing much of its density, which makes placing dental implants at a later date more complex.

Dental implants are, in essence, bionic tooth roots. They are small titanium posts or screws that make direct contact with your jaw bone, helping to prevent bone loss and enabling new bone material to grow around and over their structure, providing a firm anchor for your new teeth.

At our Loughton dental practice we can use implants combined with crowns, a bridge, or dentures to replace the required number of teeth. Whichever option you need, your implants will hold your teeth firmly in place at all times, enabling you to eat a full, balanced diet, to speak and to smile with confidence, with none of the problems associated with traditional dentures.

Dental implants in Loughton

When you come into our Loughton clinic for a consultation with an implant dentist, they will perform a detailed examination, including using x-rays and scans to check your level of bone density. If you require additional work to rebuild that density (for example, if you’ve worn traditional dentures for years) we can carry out sinus lifts and bone grafts here at the clinic.

Dental implants are usually placed under local anaesthetic at our Loughton dental practice.

For years, dental implants were often denied to patients who had experienced bone loss. However, times and techniques have changed, and at Loughton clinic Broadway Dental Care we have a skilled implantology team who can treat even complex cases where some bone loss has already occurred.

Even if your own dentist has told you that a lack of bone density makes you unsuitable for dental implants, get in touch with the team at Broadway Dental Care in Loughton. In many cases implant treatment is in fact possible; you may just need an additional procedure to rebuild your bone density first.

A bone graft may be required in the lower jaw, while a sinus lift is a commonly-used oral surgical procedure used to rebuild bone density in the upper jaw. This procedure extends into the sinus cavity above the jaw and packs the space with bone graft material. Over a few months, this material will be incorporated by the surrounding bone and will form a very solid structure which is capable of supporting dental implants.

Dental implants for denture wearers

Patients who have worn traditional dentures for a number of years are particularly prone to bone loss, because the dentures don’t replace the tooth roots and without these roots in place the jaw bone may start to resorb.

This is a common cause of loose dentures – false teeth that once fitted well but over time become increasingly unwieldy and uncomfortable as the bone shrinks back. At our Loughtondental practice, we offer denture stabilisation, which involves placing between four and eight dental implants in your jaw bone to support your dentures.

Dental implants act as bionic tooth roots, helping to prevent the problem of bone loss. You will still be able to remove your dentures – your dentist will show you how – but they won’t become loose or slip out.