How are dental implants placed?

Summary of Dental Implant Placement:

For those who don’t like reading long articles, we’ll summarize the information briefly, and if you want to know the important details, you can read everything we’ve prepared.

There are four stages in the placement of dental implants:

• Diagnosis (examination and planning)
• Surgical stage (implant placement)
• Uncovering the implant
• Prosthetic stage (placement of the upper part)

The procedure is painless and is performed under local or general anesthesia.

The implants are long-lasting and come with a warranty from Medica 3 Dent.

Dental Implant Placement

Dental implants are the perfect approach for replacing a missing tooth or several teeth, along with their roots.

The implants are placed (implanted) into the gum (bone area) in place of the natural teeth, but without the need to grind down the surrounding teeth.

Dental implant treatment involves several different implantology stages.

These stages have specific technical and implantological characteristics. They are carried out in a strict sequence, according to precise timelines.

What is a dental implant?

Implants are screws made from a special biologically compatible alloy (titanium), which is placed into the bone, substituting the root of the tooth and serving its function of supporting the tooth crown.

This makes it different from dental bridges, which are fixed with dental cement and only replace the crown of the removed tooth.

The function of the implant screw is to support the tooth crown. This differentiates it from dental bridges, which only replace the crown of the missing tooth and are attached with dental cement.

Here are the stages involved in placing a dental implant:

Stage One – Diagnosis

At this stage, precise and careful planning is required, along with the creation of a plan for placing the dental implants. The method used is computer tomography, also known as a 3D scan. The visualized 3D digital image shows the condition and helps assess the state of the existing bone, related dental structures, the ideal placement of the dental implant in the jaw, and the appropriate size – both height and width.

What is required:

• The patient must be in good overall health.
• They must be aware of the dental implant placement procedure.
• They should plan for a healing period during which they won’t strain their body and will allow the implants to integrate with the jawbone.
• They must strictly follow their dentist’s instructions.

Second stage – Surgical phase

Placement of the actual dental implant.
The implant is placed in an operating room under strict sterile conditions. The patient may choose to undergo the procedure under full or partial anesthesia. This decision is theirs to make, provided there are no medical contraindications.
During the procedure, in addition to placing the implant, additional surgical interventions may be performed, such as:

• Tooth extraction
• Bone augmentation
• Sinus lift
• Other important surgical procedures

This stage involves direct surgical intervention and is crucial and complex from a dental perspective.
The dentist must possess high implantology qualifications and appropriate skills to protect the patient from potential complications.
At the same time, the conditions for successful osseointegration (fusion of the implant with the bone) must be created.

It is important to note that the longevity of the implant depends heavily on the patient’s oral hygiene.

Third stage – Implant uncovering

In the next surgical step, the procedure is smaller in scale and involves:

Placing an abutment – used as a base for the dental crown and to create the right conditions for the gum tissue to form around the crown.

This intervention is performed under local anesthesia, not general.
The final stage – the prosthetic phase – may only be initiated two or three weeks after this implant procedure.

Fourth stage – Prosthetic phase

Prosthesis over the dental implant.
During this implantology phase, a precise dental impression is taken from the patient, and prosthetic structures are created in the Medica 3 Dent laboratory (bridge, removable denture, or dental crown) from suitable materials according to the patient’s preference.
Possible material choices include zirconia or metal-ceramics.

The prosthetic structure is temporarily attached to the previously placed abutment.
After all necessary fittings and adjustments, the implant-supported prosthesis is permanently secured.

The prosthetic phase is the final step in placing a dental implant.

After successful placement, a 100% success rate is ensured, and the dentists at Medica 3 Dent provide a warranty for the implants.
The possibility of implant failure or other complications is minimized thanks to this warranty.

At the Medica 3 Dent dental clinics in Varna, Shumen, and Golden Sands, Swiss dental implants by the brand “Straumann” are used.
This is the only manufacturer that offers a full lifetime warranty on its dental implants.

Precise planning, high-quality materials, and most importantly, highly qualified implantologists – dentists (dental experts) in dental implantology – combined with the use of state-of-the-art implantology equipment, create ideal conditions for crafting the perfect smile, improving overall health, quality of life, and the confidence of the patient.

Conclusion

The dental implant procedure is not scary and not excessively time-consuming.
The result is that missing teeth are replaced with new ones that do not decay and look perfect.

Placing implants in the mouth is one of the most long-lasting solutions for improving not only aesthetics, but overall oral functionality.
With implants, we can restore the natural function of our teeth – to chew food and smile with confidence.

At Medica 3 Dent Dental Clinic, we have patients from all over the world who have experienced the high-quality craftsmanship of our dental implants and come to Bulgaria specifically for this purpose.