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Questions About Dental Implants
What are the advantages of dental implants?
- Improved appearance. Dental implants look and feel like your own teeth. And because they are designed to fuse with bone, they become permanent.
- Improved speech. Many people suffer with poor fitting dentures that slip in the mouth and cause mumbled or slurred speech. Speech is clear and natural with dental implants.
- Improved comfort. Because they become literally a part of the body, there is no more discomfort from dealing with removable dentures.
- Improved ability to chew. Sliding dentures can make chewing difficult. Dental implants function like natural teeth, allowing for eating with confidence and without pain.
- Improved self-esteem. Dental implants give back a smile and restore a feeling of self-worth.
- Improved oral health. Dental implants do not affect other teeth, as does a tooth-supported bridge. Because nearby teeth are not altered to support an implant, more natural teeth are left intact, improving long-term oral health. Individual implants also allow easy access between teeth, for flossing, and improving oral hygiene.
- Durability. Implants are extremely durable and will last many years. With good care, many implants last a lifetime.
- Convenience. Dental implants avoid a life with the embarrassing inconvenience of removing dentures and of the need for messy adhesives to keep dentures in place.
Who is a candidate for dental implants?
- Anyone healthy enough to undergo a routine dental extraction or oral surgery can be considered for an implant procedure.
- Patients should have healthy gums and enough bone to hold the implant.
- Patients should be committed to good oral hygiene and regular dental visits.
What are the costs of placing a dental implant?
- Fees for dental implants can vary.
- It is important to note there are three steps to having a tooth restored by an implant dentist, and each step has its own fee structure:
- The cost of the surgery to implant the artificial root.
- The cost of placing the post on the healed implant.
- The cost of the crown, which serves as the tooth placed on top of the post. (There can be multiple implants with multiple crowns. And there might be other costs, such as the use of synthetic bone material during surgery.)
To learn more about how dental implants can fix your teeth and improve your oral teeth, please contact our dental implant surgeons at Washington Center for Dentistry today to schedule your initial appointment. We serve cosmetic dentistry patients in Maryland, northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C. area.
Washington Center for Dentistry
1430 K Street NW, Eighth Floor
Washington D.C., 20005
(202) 223-6630
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