Are Dental Implants Safe?

Finding Good Care

As patients suggest in the video, the knowledge of an oral & maxillofacial surgeon matters, to ensure your face, mouth and jaw are understood before decisions are made.

Suitable planning is part of safety and can include clearing up other oral, or medical issues, or any required restorative work, before professional implant surgery.

The answer to the question above is that dental implants are a safe procedure and highly successful, if correctly carried out. Alongside suitable skills, there are further options to ensure good care.

Practical Excellence

The dental implant market has blossomed and as with any growing field, providers can focus on price, rather than quality. Apart from treatment perhaps being carried out by less capable hands, the cost of implants can be cut.

This brings products which are not so finely engineered, or tested and will fail to last as long. Defeating the objective of implants, to replace your teeth in a way which mimics nature and to do so for life.

The quality of implant materials is proven by research to affect the incidence of complications, along with longer term outcome and satisfaction.

Rather than being tied to cost based suppliers, a good maxillofacial surgeon will make sure you have the best and they are of a type suited to you

Good safety also comes from sound pre-treatment analysis. The understanding of a practitioner qualified as a doctor, dentist and surgeon will help, together with the benefits modern imaging brings.

Specialists will have access to more advanced scanners, often in house. They provide insight which assists with safety and success.

Eliminating Risk

Cases can be straightforward, or require bone transplants, or regeneration. Other tissues can deserve specialist treatment before proceeding with implants, the detail of your individual make up should be understood.

Risks include infection on, or near the implant site, damage to nerves, blood vessels, or the jaw itself, or not protecting sinus cavities. These are not insurmountable issues, they simply require all round knowledge.

Whilst implants are mainly a day surgery procedure, choices on sedation can make a difference, or match your wishes. A maxillofacial surgeon is able to offer those choices, in a professional and safe way.

They will have discussed any medical conditions you have in detail and appreciate their meaning. Few people are in reality unable to have dental implants but procedures should be tailored to your needs, or health.

Creating Opportunity

Dental implants are a fantastic way to eliminate oral disadvantage. They fuse to your jawbone as natural tooth roots would, no dentures, or damage to adjacent teeth to contend with, life becomes normal again.

The smile they bring to yourself and others is valuable, we simply ask that you find a safe place to have implants fitted. Our clinic is welcoming but wherever you are, please find an experienced maxillofacial surgeon.

They will answer questions you have in a helpful way, discuss potential risks and how to solve them. Your path to effective, lifetime dental implants will be clearer and above all, safer.

Ensuring this safety and the outcome you want may cost a little more in the short term but not so much and is a worthwhile investment in your future.