Implant Dentistry

1 00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:11.629 Dental implants is basically a replacement for the root of teeth. 2 00:00:12.943 --> 00:00:16.159 If you could imagine your tooth is made of two parts, 3 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:19.440 the part that's sticking out of the gum and the part that's below the gum. 4 00:00:19.441 --> 00:00:22.469 An implant replaces the part that is below the gum. 5 00:00:22.729 --> 00:00:27.486 The advantage of that over say, for instance, a denture is just 6 00:00:27.487 --> 00:00:32.157 it's almost I can't even imagine having a denture if it were me, 7 00:00:32.158 --> 00:00:35.043 if it were my mouth, knowing the difference between the two, 8 00:00:35.257 --> 00:00:38.800 because with implants, we can actually give patients back 9 00:00:39.214 --> 00:00:41.120 all of their biting strength. 10 00:00:41.121 --> 00:00:44.185 We can give them back the feel of their palate 11 00:00:44.186 --> 00:00:45.700 and their ability to taste. 12 00:00:45.701 --> 00:00:47.629 It's just a wonderful technology. 13 00:00:47.801 --> 00:00:51.643 We can now reverse engineer our implant placements 14 00:00:51.644 --> 00:00:54.841 such that the implant is always going to go 15 00:00:54.842 --> 00:00:58.520 exactly where it needs to go relative to the tooth on top of it. 16 00:00:59.514 --> 00:01:00.957 We're going to avoid any nerves. 17 00:01:00.958 --> 00:01:03.629 We're going to avoid damaging the adjacent teeth, 18 00:01:03.743 --> 00:01:07.460 and we're going to have a really good long-term outcome. 19 00:01:07.461 --> 00:01:09.017 Essentially that, again, 20 00:01:09.018 --> 00:01:13.143 the goal is to have a tooth replacement that no one knows is a tooth replacement. 21 00:01:13.586 --> 00:01:17.186 You hear a lot today about teeth in a day. 22 00:01:17.187 --> 00:01:21.857 While sometimes that is possible and sometimes that's even the best way, 23 00:01:21.858 --> 00:01:22.980 it rarely is. 24 00:01:22.981 --> 00:01:27.657 What I would say is it'd be much better to have teeth for a lifetime. 25 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:32.129 If having teeth for a lifetime means you have to take, say, 26 00:01:32.130 --> 00:01:33.971 3-6 months to get there, 27 00:01:34.371 --> 00:01:37.043 it's certainly worth that investment of time. 28 00:01:37.171 --> 00:01:42.043 Anybody who's missing teeth is a good candidate for dental implants. 29 00:01:42.044 --> 00:01:47.843 Unless there's not a sufficient volume of bone to place an implant. 30 00:01:48.014 --> 00:01:50.899 Recovering from any surgery, of course, you're going to have swelling, 31 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:52.057 You're going to have pain. 32 00:01:52.058 --> 00:01:53.786 There are times when patients, 33 00:01:53.787 --> 00:01:57.286 they have almost no pain, and they go back to work the same day. 34 00:01:57.429 --> 00:01:59.714 Sometimes when it's a more involved case, 35 00:01:59.715 --> 00:02:03.242 and we do have to reflect soft tissues or site create, 36 00:02:03.243 --> 00:02:04.886 then it's a little more involved. 37 00:02:04.887 --> 00:02:07.015 But in terms of the post-operative course, 38 00:02:07.016 --> 00:02:10.358 it's usually quite short and really not that uncomfortable. 39 00:02:10.514 --> 00:02:13.829 The benefits, I believe, for implants, 40 00:02:13.830 --> 00:02:18.671 say, versus the older technologies that we had for replacing teeth 41 00:02:19.171 --> 00:02:22.514 is again, this idea that every tooth has its own legs, 42 00:02:22.871 --> 00:02:26.700 and so that any future problem is not a multi-tooth problem, 43 00:02:26.701 --> 00:02:28.229 it's a single tooth problem. 44 00:02:28.271 --> 00:02:29.270 That's number one. 45 00:02:29.271 --> 00:02:33.332 Number two, because each of the teeth are separate, 46 00:02:33.333 --> 00:02:35.000 you can floss between them 47 00:02:35.001 --> 00:02:37.971 versus, say, a bridge where you cannot floss between them. 48 00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:42.309 Keeping your teeth clean and therefore keeping them healthy 49 00:02:42.386 --> 00:02:46.386 is a much easier task when you have implants versus, say, 50 00:02:46.387 --> 00:02:50.529 some of the older technologies, a bridge, or a partial denture, et cetera.