The recognition that missing teeth need to be replaced is not a new one. For as long as humans have been on the earth they have realised that a full set of teeth (even if some of them are false) is a huge benefit when it comes to eating and talking. In the dim and distant past, humans used to use bits of wood or rock or sometimes animal teeth or bones to replicate lost teeth. Thankfully modern methods are far more sophisticated than this.
Mini implants are the most secure and stable way of getting your lost teeth replaced and they have become very popular as a result. Patients are attracted to them because of the way that, once fitted with implants, you won’t even have to think about the fact that one or some of your teeth are not your own.
In an operation which requires local anaesthetic, your dentist will make a careful incision in your gum and place the implants beneath the gum and against the jaw bone. It is placed thusly so that the titanium implant can ‘osseointegrate’ with the bone. That is the really clever part of implants: they effectively become part of the mouth and are a really stable housing for the false teeth which can be mounted there.
Equally adept at replacing a single missing tooth or in combination with dental bridges to replace multiple lost teeth, mini dental implants are adaptable. You will be a suitable candidate for implants – regardless of age – if you are in good health and so able to cope with the operation in your Central Leeds dentist surgery and then see through the healing.
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