Lufkin Dental Implants
A dental implant is an artificial tooth root that a dentist places into your jaw to hold a replacement tooth or bridge. Dental implants are an ideal option for people in good general oral health who have lost a tooth or teeth due to genetics, trauma, or some other reason because they look and feel just like your own! While high-tech in nature, dental implants are actually more tooth-saving than traditional bridgework, since implants do not rely on neighboring teeth for support.
You know that your confidence about your teeth affects how you feel about yourself, both personally and professionally. Perhaps you hide your smile because of spaces from missing teeth. Maybe your dentures don’t feel secure. Perhaps you have difficulty chewing. If you are missing one or more teeth and would like to smile, speak and eat again with comfort and confidence, there is good news! Dental implants look and feel natural that you may forget you ever lost a tooth.
Every way you look at it, dental implants are a better solution to the problem of missing teeth.
Under proper conditions, including diligent patient maintenance, implants can last a lifetime, with long-term studies continuing to show improving success rates for implants.
Common circumstances where an implant could be needed:
- REPLACING A SINGLE TOOTH - If you are missing a single tooth, one implant and a crown can replace it. A dental implant replaces both the lost natural tooth and its root.
- REPLACING SEVERAL TEETH - If you are missing several teeth, implant-supported bridges can replace them. Dental implants will replace both your lost natural teeth and some of the roots.
- REPLACING ALL OF YOUR TEETH - If you are missing all of your teeth, an implant-supported full bridge or full denture can replace them. Dental implants will replace both your lost natural teeth and some of the roots.
AESTHETIC
Dental implants look and feel like your own teeth! Since dental implants integrate into the structure of your bobnek they prevent the bone loss and gum recession that often accompany bridgework and dentures. No one will ever know you have a replacement tooth
TOOTH-SAVING
Dental implants don’t sacrifice the quality of your adjacent teeth like a bridge does because neighboring teeth are not altered to support the implant. More of your own teeth are left untouched, a significant long-term benefit to your oral health!
CONFIDENCE
Dental implants will allow you to once again speak and eat with comfort and confidence! They are secure and offer freedom from the irksome clicks and wobbles of dentures. They’ll allow you to say goodbye to worries about misplaced dentures and messy pastes and glues.
RELIABLE
The success rate of dental implants is highly predictable. They are considered an excellent option for tooth replacement.
