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Implant Dentistry What is a Dental Implant? Dental implants are shaped similar to the root of a tooth and are made of a Titanium alloy that the jaw bone is very compatible with and actually integrates to it. Various types of components screw onto the implants to support dentures, crowns and bridges. Implant or Tooth Supported Over-dentures: Change your life today! If you have concerns about denture stability, retention or comfort, Dr. Fagin can show you the advantages of using over-dentures . When doing an over-denture, we selectively save and overlay some of your own teeth with the denture or utilizing dental implants for support and retention of the denture. Patients with specific needs find that using over-dentures can reduce or eliminate worrisome denture movement. Implant supported over-dentures or tooth-retained over-dentures offers patients a solution to the awkward use of adhesives and home remedies. Secured over-dentures offer additional confidence with improved chewing efficiency, and during speaking, kissing, and even swimming. Over-dentures, as with conventional dentures, enhances facial appearance through increased lip and cheek support. Patients discover they approach all aspects of their life with more confidence. Having been doing Implant Supported Over-dentures for almost 20 years, the excitement that comes for our patients continues over the years. Most are happy to speak with you about their experience and why they would strongly encourage you to share in their positive quality of life changes. Learn more about over-dentures, and the increased support, stability, function, and confidence they can provide. Call Fagin & Associates for your professional consultation. Click here for more information on Implant Over-Dentures from ITI Straumann Implants. Click here for more information on Implant Over-Dentures from Zimmer Implants.
Replace Your Removable Partial Denture or Complete Denture Today: If you are having difficulty adapting to or managing with your dentures and find it compromises your taste, speech, and eating ability, then learn how we can design implant-supported fixed bridges to replace them. With today's computer Cad-Cam technology, we can not only pre-plan your case, but in some situations, also provide immediate conversion to a fixed, non-removable restoration. Call Fagin & Associates, Prosthodontists, today to learn more! Click here for more information on ‘Teeth in a Day' from Nobel Biocare
Single Tooth Implant Restorations: Preserve and protect your good teeth and avoid crowning them to hold a fixed bridge by replacing individual teeth with implant-supported crowns. Studies show that a three tooth fixed bridge connecting natural teeth has significantly increased risk of failure from decay or endodontic (root canal) complications from greater difficulty flossing and from the trauma of preparing these teeth for the bridge, when compared to implant restorations. This is especially true if the teeth holding the bridge didn't need crowns. And the surgical placement of an implant can often be less traumatic than an extraction. Today, with the precision of Cad-Cam technology, strong beautifully esthetic all-porcelain crowns can be fabricated on your implants. Implants vs. Endodontic treatment to save your tooth : It is often more practical to extract a tooth rather than to have endodontic (root canal) treatment with a post and crown and sometimes periodontal surgery. The American Endodontic Association states that treatment outcomes are similar, so one has to weigh all the clinical implications of saving a tooth. In some situations the implant restoration may prove more predictable over time. Click here for more information on Implants vs. Endodontic treatment Pre-planning for success is critical to positive implant outcomes. We will custom fabricate special Surgical Guides that may be used for cross-sectional x-rays to assess bone width, height and density. This way there are no surprises at time of surgery. The guide is used by the surgeon to control precise implant positioning for the final restorations. Sometimes there is inadequate bone width or height, so the surgeon will graft bone to the site. Knowing this ahead creates smooth sailing for both the patient and doctors. Click here for more information on Implant Supported Crowns and Bridges:
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