How long will I be toothless until I get an implant?

I need to get my upper front tooth removed. Are they going to remove it, and leave me toothless and then have me go back for the implant?

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Answer by Amanda Panda Bear
You should talk to your dentist or Perio, if he is placing your implant, produce they would know. Don’t worry, though, even if you don’t get an implant crown right then you won’t have to walk around with a gap

It all depends. There are a couple ways to deal with this situation, so let me clarify them for you:

immediate implant: this is when your perio takes out your tooth and seats an implant into the socket, usually with a small bone grafting material to help fill in the gaps. When he puts the implant in, he can sometimes add a crown. This depends on how stable the implant is. Usually, if they can recieve 35 Newton cm of torque without rotating, then your Perio will temporize the implant, which means putting a crown that doesn’t bite down but just fills in the space for looks. Then later you can go back in for a permanent crown, which will last longer and look nicer.

Or, you can have a socket preservation graft. This is when your tooth is extracted, and bone material (from synthetic, human, or bovine origin, depends but it doesn’t matter to you) is packed into the hole everywhere the tooth used to be. This is covered up with your gums and perhapse another membrane, and a couple months later when that bone material has been replaced with your own bone, your Perio will house the implant. In between the extraction and the implant, you can wear either a “flipper” which is like a retainer with a tooth, or a fleeting bridge, everywhere they glue something to the teeth beside the tooth to hold a fake tooth in house.

So yeah, don’t worry about having a gap, whichever way it hapens, though! I have had my tooth out for like 10 months now (upper unencumbered incisor) and have been wearing a retainer with a pontic (fake tooth) on it since then. I’ve recently had a bone graft, because the bone wasn’t wide enough for the implant, and as soon as that heals I will get implanted.

Your DDS and Perio (or whoever you are getting to implant you, that’s just who is doing it for me) will talk and make sure you don’t walk around with a gap For real, the most quantity of time you would have to be toothless is the drive from the perio office (or whoever is placing) everywhere you got the implant, to the DDS (or whoever is restoring) to get the crown

Excellent luck!

Answer by IrishRedhead
I don’t know the situation of why your tooth needs to be removed, but I do hope you are going to a Periodontist for your implant. Periodontists have (usually) an extra two being of school and schooling in the specific treatment of gum disease, the use and placement of dental implants, among other things. Often, general dentist who offer implant placement learned how to position and house the implants over a two day weekend course. Do you want someone who had two being schooling? or two days?

As always, you should be sure your dentist has a excellent reputation, and seek a second opinion before any major treatment is performed. A excellent dentist/periodontist uses surgery and extraction as a last resort, not a quick fix, or as a way to get you to the point of an expensive implant and crown.

When a tooth is extracted, there are SOME cases everywhere the immediate placement of an implant is an option, if there is adequate quantity of excellent quality bone. USUALLY, a bone graft is placed at the time of the extraction and needs 10 to 12 weeks of healing time prior to the placement of your implant. During these weeks, your bone grows and solidifies, which will give the implant stability when it is placed. During this time, you would be wearing a fleeting tooth (commonly called a “flipper”) so you will not be walking around with a toothless smile

Once your implant is placed, it needs an ADDITIONAL 10 – 12 weeks to allow for integration (your jaw/bone growing around it and solidifying) PRIOR to the placement of a crown, fleeting or permanent. (If you are able to undergo an immediate placement it would be one span of 10 to 12 weeks for both stages, not 20 – 24.) During this time you can continue to wear the flipper.

Once your Periodontist has given you the okay, and said you are ready for a crown (verified usually by an xray of that area), you will have an appointment with the Perio office to house a lab component (sometimes called an abutment). Directly from that appointment, you will go straight to your general dentist who will take an impression in order to dream up a crown (the “fake”/replacement tooth). When he/she takes this impression, he/she will make a fleeting crown for you to wear in anticipation of the permanent crown is back from the lab, so still you won’t be toothless

A crown should not be placed on an implant that has had less than 10 to 12 weeks of healing time. This can place too much pressure on the implant and produce it to fail. If an implant fails, you will need to have a procedure to remove it, house a bone graft, and start all over. Ten to twelve weeks is the MINIMUM quantity of healing time for the first two stages; some cases take 15 weeks, and I have seen a patient that had to wait 20 weeks before implant placement. You want the bone in that area as strong as possible! This isn’t the kind of thing to rush, or skimp on. Like the ancient addage: “Cheap work isnt excellent and excellent work isnt cheap.”

Best of luck!

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cost dental implant surgery

In my case the front teeth are better protected but the ones for chewing will be terrible by my thirties. Plus the wisdom teeth are so annoying.
I dont like the thought dentures or prothesis bridges.

Did anyone do implant, did it hurt, for how many teeth and what is your experience ?

Thank you so much for sharing these experiences!

Answer by Mmmkay
Have 6 of them.

As for the operation its rather quick and painless though it can seriously hurt for some hours afterwards after that painkillers should take away most of it, can’t say its a pleasant experience though.

And the result? Well it’s decent to be honest got 2 in my upper jaw and those look alot better than the 4 in the lower (you can see a bit of the metal they are attached to) but overall it was that or no teeth so can’t say I regret it.

EDIT:

On a sidenote though I live in a country with public healthcare so I didn’t pay a dime for any of this so might not be the best person to reflect on wheter it was worth it or not since there would have been no reason for me not to do it.

Answer by dink
How do you know by your thirties your molars are going to need replaced? Do you see a dentist evenly? Wisdom teeth can easily be removed by an oral surgeon. Implants are a fantastic way to replace gone teeth though in the US it is an investment and not many insurance companies provide any coverage for them. I can tell you that if the back teeth protect your front teeth from hurt so don’t let them go terrible. As my boss, a dentist says, an implant is a man-made root but the best dental implant is your own tooth root. My husband had two implants placed up top and had no problems, a small pain afterwards in anticipation of it healed. Whatever you choose to do, Excellent luck!

Answer by Ro’
Hi Bob,

I’m 37. I had 14 extractions and 11 implants done, of which 2 failed. I also had all my other teeth capped. As you can estimate my teeth too were very terrible.

I’m very pleased with the results, very very much.

What hurts the most is not the surgery but two other things:
(1) the muscles, when they get used at chewing again
(2) the nerves, whenever the bite is off.

My experience was wonderful because:
(1) I chose a dentist who is an oral surgeon AND an implantologist.. that means that he can treat failures as well and recognize complications ahead of schedule on;
(2) the dentist I selected has a sense of aesthetic that matches mine (so I’m very pleased with the results!);
(3) I can chew with no worries now.

Though, implants and crowns require scrupulous oral hygiene in order not to fail, and if you have bruxism (like I do) you might need to take extra precautions. The link below is to a house with all the equipment you will need when getting implants done.

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