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Dental Implants

What are Dental Implants?
Dental implants are titanium "roots" carefully placed in positions that were once occupied by your natural teeth to support replacements that look and feel like your teeth. Within a few months, they become secure in the bone.

If you have a tooth that needs to come out, want to fill in a space where one or more teeth are missing, or want to eliminate your dentures, wouldn’t a “third set of teeth” be just what you’re looking for? Dental implants can be an excellent way to solve each of the above situations and are the next best thing to a third set of teeth.

Why Choose Dr. Elliot Davis for Dental Implants – What Makes Us Different?
The whole team is right here. You never have to leave the office. Dr. Elliot Davis (who was once again honored to be included in the ‘Guide to America’s Top Dentists’), the oral and maxillofacial surgeon and the periodontist, are skilled diagnosticians and dental surgeons who together have more than forty years of dental implant surgery and restorative experience. Proper planning, implementation and maintenance are the three keys to successful dental implant treatments. They are experienced and take full advantage of the digital radiograph (digital panoramic, digital periapical and digital bitewing x-rays), digital photographic and digital simulation imaging systems. Whether you require one single dental implant or full mouth rehabilitation, you will feel comfortable and confident throughout the process. Should you need some bone grafting or a sinus lift (pre-implant surgery bone enhancement procedures), those procedures are routinely and efficiently handled in the office.

If you are seeking a New York implant dentist with impeccable qualifications, we suggest you contact Dr. Elliot Davis today.

Dental Implants – An Example of a Single Dental Implant (with dental abutment and crown placement)
Please note how nicely the new dental implant and crown blend in to the rest of the teeth in her mouth.

This view from the top of the mouth shows how newer implants (on the left side - the patient's right side) can blend in more naturally than the older style implants (on the right side).

Benefits of Dental Implants
Dental implants can improve your quality of life. They can help you chew as well as enhance your satisfaction while chewing. Dental implants can help prevent bone atrophy (shrinkage) by maintaining your present level of bone. Implants have been known to enhance one’s speech and minimize bad breath. Dental implants can help you feel more youthful and enhance your self esteem.

Are Dental Implants Right For Me?
If you have experienced tooth loss, you are not alone. According to the American Dental Association, more than 100 million Americans have replaced at least one lost tooth that would have been visible if it were not replaced. Sometimes when the space is too large to create a dental fixed bridge, several dental implants can offer an elegant solution. On occasion, missing teeth are best replaced with a fixed bridge (no dental implants), which relies upon the shaving and covering of the adjacent natural teeth for support. Sometimes, the teeth next to the empty space are healthy, and it is prudent to leave them untouched. Placing a single, free standing, dental implant, implant abutment and implant crown can be the best choice for filling in that missing space..

What are Small Diameter or Mini-Dental Implants?
Small diameter dental implants or mini-dental implants, are a relatively new class of dental implants. In the proper situations they are a practical, economical and versatile category of dental implants. While some offices prefer one type of implant, we are comfortable and experienced with a wide variety of implant choices.

Practical
Mini-Implants can be an excellent choice for helping to stabilize existing dentures, especially full lower dentures that may not be staying in as securely as they once did. One of the most appreciated advantages of mini-implants is that they are a same day procedure. The same day the implants are placed, the denture is modified, and you go home with your new, more secure, denture.

Economical
Mini-Implants are also an economical choice. The fees can run about one half to two thirds the typical cost of traditional dental implants. If your existing denture is in very good shape, it can be modified to accept the mini-dental implants. So, in addition to the savings when compared with dental implants, there may be an additional savings by not needing a new denture.

Versatile
Mini-Implants can also play a key role during the temporization and healing process for dental implants. Mini-Implants can be used to stabilize a temporary while implants are solidifying and the area around a sinus lift or bone graft is healing.

Here are examples of mini dental implants minutes after the completion of their surgical placement.