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Treatments > Prosthodontics > Dental Implants

Introduction

Dental Implants History

Conventional or Implant Treatment

FAQ

Introduction

Prosthodontists, Oral surgeons and Periodontists are the experts in providing dental implant treatment. While one person can provide all the skills necessary for implant treatment, using a team of specialists means that you benefit from expert skills and knowledge at each stage of treatment. This can make your treatment quicker, easier and more predictable. You are not limited to the expertise of any one clinician.

Dental implants are the fastest growing area of dentistry today.
When teeth are missing or have to be removed the most ideal way of replacing them is to use dental implant supported artificial teeth. Anchoring the replacement teeth in this way gives many advantages:

• Eliminate the need for dentures and denture fixative so that there is nothing “moving about” when you chew
• You can bite and chew food just as well as with your natural teeth
• Eat comfortably again
• Enjoy socialising and eating out again
• Be able to eat food that you have avoided for years
• Achieve natural looking teeth and the smile you have always wanted
• No damage to remaining teeth
• No need for a plate to cover the roof of your mouth
• Restorations that last longer than anything else conventional dentistry can offer you
• Implants stop your bone from shrinking and face from changing shape
• Reduces the “aging” effect from tooth loss
• Opportunity to restore and rebuild lost tissue predictably
• Less complicated and easier to look after and maintain than conventional bridges or dentures

Facial collapse after tooth loss		Facial support restored with implant supported restorations

Our experience and expertise in providing this treatment has been established over the last 12 years. With five prosthodontists and two oral surgeons (including a Professor of Maxillo-Facial surgery) our collective experience amounts to over 100yrs! There really is not a situation or problem that we have not encountered.

We are happy to work with all the systems available and having our own onsite CT scanner and dental laboratory allows us to successfully treat situations that previously might have been thought impossible.

Dental implant treatment is not routine dentistry and only a few practices are able to offer this type of treatment. This is for many reasons, the most common of which is that the number of patients seeking implant treatment in an established practice is generally quite small and unfortunately does not justify the investment in the required technology, together with the considerable surgical and prosthetic training that is required. This is changing as more and more people are demanding dental implant treatment. We have for 5 years been running a postgraduate teaching programme for local practitioners to help them introduce this type of treatment to their practices. There remains however the need for a centre to which patients requesting this type of treatment can be referred or for more challenging cases requiring specialist care.

It is on this basis that we established our referral system. We started accepting referrals over 12years ago and currently have over 400 practitioners referring patients to us for dental implant treatment.

We can provide a service at whatever level is required by your referring practitioner:

• Surgery only
• Fabrication of the final restoration
• Full treatment (surgery and delivery of the restoration)
• CT scans
•  Help and advice on planning

Confidence in the advice and treatment being provided is paramount and to this end all patients who attend the centre for this type of treatment receive unlimited information on the options available and are encouraged to become involved in the diagnostic and decision making processes. A careful consultation process, with both the surgeon and restorative dentist, ensures that a lasting professional relationship is established prior to treatment commencing.

Throughout treatment referring practitioners are kept fully informed on how their patients treatment is proceeding. On completion, patients are returned to their general practitioners care with the relevant advice on home and surgery maintenance being sent in advance.

We are extremely fortunate to have Dr PierLugi Coli as one of our full time Prosthodontists. Dr Coli worked as a specialist prosthodontist in the Branemark clinic in Sweden for over 10 years.

Since the initial implant systems were developed there have been many systems brought to market, which no longer exist. To date there have been over 1000 implants developed with varying rates of success.

If embarking on implant treatment it is essential to use a tried and tested system that you can be confident will still be available in 10 -20years, and for which spare parts are readily available (maintenenace will always be required at some point).

When researching your implant treatment please note that as the scientifically proven implants all cost a similar amount, marketing for reduced cost implant treatment is often based on more obscure unproven systems.

As a specialist centre we only place, service and maintain the major implant systems.
Implant systems we are familiar with:


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