Dental implant in a novel technique to replace lost tooth. Traditionally a lost tooth or teeth were replaced by a removable denture or a fixed partial denture (Commonly known as crown and bridge). Nowadays dental implant offers a new technique where in by a small surgical procedure an titanium screw is screwed into your jaw bone which remains there for 3 months, which is the time required to consolidate that screw with your jaw bone. Thereafter is a tooth is fixed to that screw.

» Who needs Dental Implants
Any body who has lost a tooth can replace it with dental implants. Age is no barrier, but a successful implants placement requires a preoperative clinical examination and a radiograph to measure the actual bone and size of implant. There are few medical contraindications like uncontrolled diabetes, immuno compromised diseases, irradiated bone which do not allow implant placement.

» What are the risks Aisouated Surgery
The magnitude of surgical insult is minor in the cases of implant placement and except slight swelling and pain at the surgical site; there are no major risks involved. This too can be minimized by gentle soft tissue handling. May require usage of antibiotic and analgesics to counter the pain and swelling.

» Advanced Dental Implant Procedures
In many cases there is no sufficient bone present in your jaw and this may require additional surgery in the form of bone grafting by your own bone taken from some site of your body or by artificial bone.

» Maxillay Sinus Lift
This procedure is under taken when the bone in the upper jaw is insufficient height and implant placement is that area may lead to maxillary sinus perforation (Maxillary sinus is an close cavity present in your upper jaw bone beside your nose which humidifier the air). In such cases your surgeon does a small surgical procedure to expose the sinus mucosa and lifts it to put a block of bone underneath that to increase the height of bone for implant placement.