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What is a dental implant?


A dental implant is simply a metal screw that is placed into the jawbone. It acts as an anchor for a false tooth or a set of false teeth.

A dental implant is a replacement artificial tooth root that provides a stable foundation for a replacement artificial tooth, functioning very much like the root and crown of your natural teeth.

Your natural teeth are stable biting and chewing surfaces because your jawbone supports them. This is also true of dental implants.

Successful dental implants become firmly embedded in the jaw through osseointegration, a natural process where the bone grows onto the implant surface.

This provides the same stability as natural teeth, making it possible for your replacement teeth to look, feel and function like natural teeth.


Why are dental implants so popular?


Dental implants have a number of advantages over more conventional methods of replacing missing teeth.
  1. An implant-supported crown is very similar to your natural tooth because it is fixed permanently, and does not need your other teeth or soft tissues for support: NO MORE REMOVABLE DENTURE and NO DAMAGE TO THE ADJACENT TEETH.
  2. Dental implants preserve the bone of the jaw that would normally have resorbed after tooth extraction.
  3. Implants can’t get decayed, so no more fillings.
  4. In the very rare event of an implant not integrating with the bone of your jaw, it will be replaced free of charge by the manufacturer.


How are dental implants placed?


Dental implants do involve a small surgical procedure. However this is a very minor procedure, and you can go back to work the next day. There is usually a little discomfort, but very little pain afterwards.

The success of dental implants depends on the amount of bone available to place them into. It is therefore important to have your implant placed as soon as possible after extraction, before loss of bone occurs.


What type of implants do you use at Share a Smile?


Our dental implant provider is Southern Implants,* a pioneer in this field, contributing extensively to the enhancement of implant devices. Southern Implants is focused on the top-end specialist sector of the implant market.


For more information about dental implants, please visit our dental implants FAQs section.

Alternatively, Contact us today to request additional information or to make an appointment with one of our specialists.
* Please note that Share a Smile is not responsible for content on external websites
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Share a Smile specialist dental centre is based in Romford, Essex and offers high quality dentistry in a friendly caring environment to both the general public and patients referred by their dentists. Our dental specialists are experienced dentists who have undergone up to four years of additional post-graduate education to become experts in specific areas of dentistry such as including Dental implants - the replacement of missing teeth with artificial ones.