Beautiful Dental Implants in St. Louis
Have you been living with missing or damaged teeth and feel finally ready for a reliable restoration? At St. Louis Smile Center, we offer effective dental implant solutions to improve the confidence in your smile and reinvigorate your oral health. Our skilled team leverages advanced technical resources with a caring chairside manner to deliver comprehensive dental implant procedures designed to leave you with a brighter smile.
We provide restorative services to the Bridgeton region and surrounding areas, offering all services in both English and Spanish. Our dentist can provide any pretreatment procedure you need to help ensure your dental implant remains comfortable, secure, and natural-looking for the long term. Your artificial tooth replacements will be customized in a lab to fit your unique oral structure and deliver satisfying results. Contact our practice today to start your dental restoration journey by scheduling a consultation!
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What Are Dental Implants?
Dental implants are a permanent solution for restoring missing or damaged teeth from root to crown. Our skilled and focused dentists will surgically place the implant post into your jawbone, which is made from body-safe materials like titanium. Next, we will attach the abutment to the post, and your artificial tooth replacements will be processed in a lab to fit securely and look natural in the context of your mouth.
Quality dental implants will assist your oral health, aesthetics, and overall functionality. The three parts that comprise a successful dental implant procedure are:
- The Post
- The Abutment
- The Tooth Restoration
Preparing You for Dental Implants
During the diagnostic process, we will take detailed digital images of your oral structure using CBCT scanner technology. This assists the customization process and helps us determine if you require preliminary treatments before the surgery can be performed successfully. To help prepare you for implant surgery, our pretreatments include:
- Bone Grafting: Your jawbone must be healthy and strong for the implant procedure to be successful and the post to last permanently. If your jawbone is too thin or weak, we can provide a bone grafting procedure. This involves transplanting a small amount of bone to your upper or lower jaw, increasing the volume and helping to ensure the implant post has a sturdy foundation for long-term repeated function.
- Sinus Lifts: If we determine that there isn't enough room in your upper jaw to properly transplant sufficient bone, we can work with a trusted local oral surgeon to provide a sinus lift. This procedure moves or lifts the sinus membrane upward to help make ample room in the upper jaw for the placement of bone to support the implant.
Dental Implant FAQs
Our passionate dentist and trusted staff want to provide every patient who walks through our doors with as much valuable information as possible. We are happy to answer questions regarding our process, the materials we use, and aftercare tips. Some frequently asked questions we receive about dental implants include:
We can provide customized implant-supported crowns to replace single missing teeth. If you need three teeth replaced in a row, we can position a fixed dental bridge, which uses two implant posts to place three restorations, one being suspended in the middle. We also offer implant-supported full or partial dentures, which require a varying number of implant posts and will replace up to a full arch of missing teeth.
Dental implant surgery is generally considered a tolerable procedure, but we can offer reliable sedation services. It is common to experience some post-operation discomfort, which can be managed with over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medications or an icepack. If you're experiencing discomfort or pain lasting longer than expected, contact our office.
The implant post becomes a permanent part of your smile. We recommend you take regular care of your artificial restorations as if they were your natural teeth. Practice good oral hygiene and schedule routine checkups, and your restorations should last ten years, if not longer. Eventually, they will need to be replaced due to damage or normal wear. Fortunately, replacing the restorations is a fairly easy process without any further surgery needed.
Reliable & Long-Lasting Dental Implants in St. Louis
At St. Louis Smile Center, we will work to restore your smile from a functional and aesthetic standpoint. Our skilled team utilizes advanced technology and years of experience to assist the oral health of our beloved community. We can deliver all the necessary evaluations and pretreatments to help ensure your implant is properly secured and you're enjoying your natural-looking and comfortable tooth restorations for years.
Let our practice provide quality dental implants that will work to transform your smile and accentuate its natural beauty and personality. Contact us today to schedule a consultation!
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