Dental Implants

00:00:06.172 --> 00:00:12.219 A dental implant is a type of restoration where you drill a hole into the bone, 00:00:13.261 --> 00:00:16.806 usually 4-5 millimeters in width, 00:00:17.389 --> 00:00:23.394 and then you screw in a titanium cylindrical implant into that bone, 00:00:23.603 --> 00:00:27.273 let it heal for two and a half months, and then at that point, 00:00:27.481 --> 00:00:29.691 a dentist would go ahead and put the crown on. 00:00:30.123 --> 00:00:32.319 The process of getting dental implant 00:00:32.444 --> 00:00:37.031 usually starts with the diagnosis that the patient needs a dental implant 00:00:37.656 --> 00:00:39.366 and whether they want a dental implant. 00:00:39.908 --> 00:00:40.951 After that, 00:00:41.284 --> 00:00:46.622 it's taking cone beam X-rays to determine where the sinus is 00:00:46.904 --> 00:00:49.273 and where the mandibular nerve 00:00:49.356 --> 00:00:52.210 that comes down through the middle of the mandible exits, 00:00:52.711 --> 00:00:54.837 depending on where we're going to place the implant. 00:00:55.213 --> 00:01:00.008 Once we know that, we know how long an implant we should place. 00:01:00.175 --> 00:01:02.427 After about another week or 10 days, 00:01:02.510 --> 00:01:05.721 the patient comes in and we use a surgical guide 00:01:05.888 --> 00:01:08.160 in order to know exactly where to place the implant. 00:01:08.243 --> 00:01:10.934 Then we put a healing abutment over that implant. 00:01:11.393 --> 00:01:12.852 Let it heal up for 6 weeks. 00:01:12.936 --> 00:01:15.438 Patient comes back, we take an X-ray. 00:01:15.643 --> 00:01:18.857 We want to see how the implant is integrated with the bone. 00:01:19.443 --> 00:01:23.403 At that point, probably a month later, we send the... 00:01:23.486 --> 00:01:27.698 Back to the general dentist, and they take impressions of that implant, 00:01:27.798 --> 00:01:30.450 and they get a crown back and cement it on the implant. 00:01:30.617 --> 00:01:34.329 One implant on a simple case takes an hour, 00:01:34.412 --> 00:01:37.373 including anesthesia and post-op instructions. 00:01:37.563 --> 00:01:38.957 Patient is usually eating 00:01:39.041 --> 00:01:44.462 what they want 4-5 days after the implant is placed. 00:01:44.712 --> 00:01:45.755 As far as pain goes, 00:01:45.838 --> 00:01:48.007 very little pain associated with the procedure. 00:01:48.632 --> 00:01:49.800 It feels like a normal tooth. 00:01:49.883 --> 00:01:53.053 They can chew with it like a natural tooth, 00:01:53.761 --> 00:01:55.430 and they're excited.