Dental Specialists for Implant Restoration in Central Park South, NYC
Unparalleled Dental Implants Care
Missing teeth can harm more than just your appearance; they can also do damage to the health of your teeth, gums, and jawbone. Morgan Herman, DDS, Michael Herman, DDS, and the talented team of dental experts at Beyond Dentistry NYC on Central Park South in New York City provide state-of-the-art dental implants to fill in any holes in their patients’ smiles and improve their overall oral health.
What are dental implants?
Dental implants are a modern and effective solution for replacing a missing tooth or teeth. They’re tiny, titanium screws that are surgically implanted into your jawbone wherever you’re missing a tooth. Because the human body doesn’t recognize titanium as a foreign substance, dental implants actually fuse with your jawbone as you heal from the surgery.
Once fused, they act just like a natural tooth root, providing all of the same health benefits and serving as a sturdy foundation on top of which the team at Beyond Dentistry NYC can affix a crown, bridge, or dentures.
Dental implants are considered one of the biggest advances in modern dentistry, and according to the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, they have an overall success rate of nearly 95%.
What are the benefits of dental implants?
A dental implant is the closest you can get to regrowing a tooth. Dental implants look, feel, and function just like the rest of your natural teeth, and require no special tools or techniques to keep clean. Unlike dentures, they’re permanent, so you never have to worry about them slipping around in your mouth, and unlike bridges, they don’t require you to shave off the enamel from any of your adjacent teeth.
Dental implants also preserve the integrity of your jaw by stimulating your jawbone and preventing bone loss. And by filling in the spaces where you’re missing teeth, they prevent your other natural teeth from falling out of alignment.
What’s the process of getting dental implants?
So you’ve decided that dental implants are right for you. What’s next?
The first thing the team at Beyond Dentistry NYC does is take X-rays and impressions of your mouth and bite to use as a road map for the placement of your implants. If you’re getting an implant to replace an existing tooth, they extract that tooth before they place the implants. An extraction can be done during the same office visit as your implant insertion.
Next, your Beyond Dentistry NYC dentist makes an incision in your gum and drills a hole in your jawbone, which feels similar to having a cavity treated. Once the hole is drilled, they insert the implant deep into your bone socket, stitch up your gum incision, and send you home until the implant fuses with your jawbone. This can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months, and varies from patient to patient.
Once the implant is fused to your jawbone, you come back to Beyond Dentistry NYC for another visit, where your dentist affixes an abutment to your implant and then caps off the abutment with a crown, bridge, or dentures. You’ll walk out of the office with an instantly improved smile, feeling like you were never missing a tooth in the first place.
Don’t wait around with missing teeth any longer. Schedule an appointment today with the dental implant experts at Beyond Dentistry NYC and get on the path toward a happier and healthier smile.