Dental Implants Are A Solution For Tooth Loss

When we lose teeth to gum disease or other facts, these resulting gaps in your smile could cause major complications and even embarrassment regarding your smile’s appearance. To offer a replacement that looks and functions like natural teeth, your Encinitas/San Diego, CA, periodontist can offer dental implants.

How Periodontal Disease Causes Tooth Loss

When you have periodontal disease and the issue isn’t managed with preventive and holistic treatments, then the disease could reach a more advanced stage, one linked to the loss of attachment tissues. You then lose natural teeth, which can complicate the health, function, and beauty of your smile. When you lose teeth to the disease, we want to help rebuild your smile. With dental implants, we have an option that can function and look like natural teeth, offering results designed to last for decades to come, or possibly a lifetime.

Planning and Preparing for Dental Implants

To begin, we will examine your smile to assess the severity of your periodontal disease, and to assess the extent of your tooth loss. We may recommend treatment to manage the disease and protect your smile from implant failure and further tooth loss. We also take detailed digital x-rays of your jaw to choose the best position, angle, and depth to insert these new posts. The dental implant post is a small screw-like post made from biocompatible titanium. When inserted into the jawbone, this acts as a new root, which keeps your jawbone intact so your new teeth can truly last. If your jawbone has weakened due to tooth loss, we could use laser-assisted grafting to strengthen it.

Securing Your New Teeth

Our team will numb the area and administered sedation so you are comfortable as we insert the posts into the jaw. We may use the LANAP laser procedure to modify the gum tissues, or LAPIP to assist in the placement process, destroying harmful bacteria in the process to ensure the smile heals faster and you can return to your normal routine sooner. Our team can address an individual missing tooth, or use multiple dental implants to support a set of dentures, so you have new teeth that never slip and have the potential to last a lifetime.

If you have any questions about how we place dental implants or if you would like to see us and use your 2024 dental benefits before they expire, then contact our team today.

Talk to Dr. Kania About Implant Dentistry

We want to help you smile with confidence by addressing the gaps in your smile! To learn more about how our team can replace your missing teeth, or to schedule your appointment, give us a call at our office in Encinitas, CA today at 760-642-0711.