Are you thinking about getting implant-based dentures to replace your traditional dentures? If so, you are making a wise choice. Patients who make the switch from removable to implant dentures report greater comfort, better diet, and more confidence in their social life. It may seem like a daunting experience at first, since dental implants require…
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A surgical guide enables a dentist to precisely place implants in the jawbone. Essential to achieving optimal results, digital treatment planning involves using an intraoral scanner and a cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) machine to take images of a patient’s mouth. The detailed visuals of the soft and hard tissues of the mouth system then…
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Prior to dental implant surgery, digital treatment planning ensures that your dentist can achieve optimal results with precise implant placement. Intraoral scanners and CBCT scans assist in treatment planning by providing detailed images of a patient’s mouth. Because the dentist will need to place the implants in the strongest part of the jawbone, the images…
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Digital treatment planning ensures accurate dental implant placement, helping the implant dentist from start to finish in planning and completing his or her patient’s treatment case. Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) machines generate three dimensional views of a patient’s teeth, gums, and nerve pathways that make planning for surgery, placing the implants, and understanding the…
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Ensuring optimal dental implant results begins in the preliminary planning stages. The first step of the implant process is digital treatment planning for your case. Current technology and equipment used in modern dentistry enables precise imaging for ideal implant placement. Intraoral scanners and cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) machines provide a three-dimensional view of the…
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Advancements in dentistry equipment help your dentist diagnose and treat your dental concerns more efficiently and for optimal results. An endodontist might use a cone-beam computed tomography, CBCT, scanner to determine the best course of action for root canal therapy. An implant dentist would use a CBCT scanner to pinpoint the densest part of a…
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First, a note about dental implants. When placed by a qualified provider, implants have an impressively high success rate. For most people, dental implants are a permanent replacement for missing teeth that feel and function almost the same as their natural teeth. The initial success rate for implants is an impressive 98-99 percent, and the…
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Dental implants replace missing teeth, lost because of accidents or disease. Implants can help mitigate the effects of missing teeth, such as: pronunciation differences or speaking difficulty; teeth shifting into empty spaces; and bone loss in the jaw. Because implants are permanent, proper placement is critical to a successful procedure. Using imaging technology, an implant…
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For a layperson, dental implants may seem a simple procedure. You have a space in your jaw where you’ve lost a tooth, so that’s obviously where the implant will go, right? It gets slightly more complicated if you’ve lost more than one tooth, even more so if you are in need of implant dentures or…
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Dental implants are a revolutionary advance in tooth replacement, and can perhaps be considered dentistry’s greatest achievement in recent decades. Thanks to dental implants, patients who have suffered tooth loss can now reclaim what they have lost with a biocompatible, man-made substitute for natural teeth. Today, millions of Americans can now avoid the discomfort of…
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