Dental implants are artificial substitutes for tooth roots that is placed on the tooth crown to replace the visible portion of the tooth.

These implants are small pieces of shaped metal screw that is inserted into the jawbone or mandible. The metal used is titanium, which has the property of being “biocompatibe”, ie it is integrated into the bone by a firm bond and does not cause rejection.

Prior to his placement is made an exhaustive study of the patient, general health status, state of the jawbone, your jaw joint and the possibility of successful treatment.

This procedure is performed in the operating room under local or general anesthesia. To ensure their success requires the intervention of a multidisciplinary team which coordinated the prosthodontist, oral surgeon, the laboratory technician in dental prosthesis and dental hygienist. It is also necessary that the patient is committed to carefully look after their dental hygiene.

Advantages of Dental Implants
The advantages of dental implants are guarantee comfort, aesthetics and perfect functionality, so to speak and to eat and that do not move, do not affect the surrounding teeth do not need plaques on the palate, not accumulate food debris underneath, painless, are perfect and can chew all food.

Their placement is almost always successful and there are patients with implants in the mouth for 20 years without any problems. Follow-up studies allow us to assume is a technique with excellent results in 90% of cases.

Disadvantages of Dental Implants
Take time (several visits to the surgeon) and an investment of money greater than a prosthesis because the materials are expensive and require a high degree of specialization.

Like any surgery, implant placement has risks of infection, which is prevented by the operation in an operating theater with the necessary aseptic conditions.

Maybe the dental implants does not integrate well and move and hurt a little, which can be solved by removing it, letting the bone heal and re-used.