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A dental implant is a type of restoration
where you drill a hole into the bone,

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usually 4-5 millimeters in width,

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and then you screw in a titanium
cylindrical implant into that bone,

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let it heal for two and a half months,
and then at that point,

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a dentist would go ahead
and put the crown on.

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The process of getting dental implant

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usually starts with the diagnosis
that the patient needs a dental implant

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and whether they want a dental implant.

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After that,

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it's taking cone beam X-rays
to determine where the sinus is

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and where the mandibular nerve

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that comes down through the middle
of the mandible exits,

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depending on where we're going
to place the implant.

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Once we know that, we know
how long an implant we should place.

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After about another week or 10 days,

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the patient comes in
and we use a surgical guide

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in order to know
exactly where to place the implant.

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Then we put a healing
abutment over that implant.

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Let it heal up for 6 weeks.

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Patient comes back,
we take an X-ray.

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We want to see how the implant
is integrated with the bone.

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At that point, probably a month later,
we send the...

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Back to the general dentist,
and they take impressions of that implant,

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and they get a crown back
and cement it on the implant.

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One implant on a simple case
takes an hour,

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including anesthesia
and post-op instructions.

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Patient is usually eating

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what they want 4-5 days
after the implant is placed.

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As far as pain goes,

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very little pain
associated with the procedure.

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It feels like a normal tooth.

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They can chew with it
like a natural tooth,

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and they're excited.