
Dental Implant
“I lost my back tooth and my teeth have been shifting on that side since then.” A patient came in today to my office with this chief complaint. A dental implant would be the ideal treatment to replace his missing tooth. It is relatively a painless procedure with predictable results. Dental implants are made of titanium and coated with materials that initiates the bone fusion to the implant piece (the process is called osteointegration). The procedure consists of two steps: Fi