Top 5 Advantages of Choosing Dental Implants

When it comes to replacing missing teeth, the most common treatment choices have always been dental bridges or dentures. But now, dentistry is turning the tide, with implant therapy setting the gold standard of care in regard to rehabilitation and tooth replacement.

Here’s why…

1. Dental Implants are a Long-Term Investment

A well maintained dental implant is likely to last for the rest of your life. While a bridge or denture may need to be changed out every several years, implants typically do not.

When you take this characteristic into account during your treatment planning process, you can see how investing in implants is a smarter financial decision compared to what might initially look like a “cheaper” alternative. The cost of getting implants may be slightly more than other options, but in regard to maintenance and long-term care they are much more affordable for our Long Island patients.

2. Dental Implants are Not Invasive to Other Teeth

Traditional tooth replacement options call for reshaping healthy tooth structure to support them, or extracting remaining teeth before a prosthesis can be installed. Because it’s always our Suffolk County dentists’ goal to preserve your natural teeth, there is only one viable alternative worth considering: implants.

Implants set directly into your bone as if they were a natural root, making them independent of other teeth when it comes to stabilization in the mouth. Adjacent healthy teeth can be preserved, without the need for crowning virgin tooth enamel and the need to re-treat aging restorations every decade on otherwise healthy teeth.

3. Dental Implants Have an Extremely High Success Rate

Compared to other modern dental procedures, dental implants are regarded to be much more successful, with nearly 98% of cases being effective. Failure of implants is extremely rare. Our Suffolk County dentists will only place an implant in an area that is healthy enough to support the artificial root, and only if the patient is healthy enough for such a procedure.

4. Dental Implants Preserve Your Facial Profile and Bone Anatomy

Tooth loss significantly impacts the shape and profile of your teeth, due to the bone resorption (shrinkage) that occurs as an after-effect. Fortunately, implants preserve bone structure, even strengthening it, so that your natural chin, cheeks, and facial contours remain preserved.

Not only that, but implants are secured into the jaw through a process known as “osseointegration,” which is where the body creates new bone around the implant, fusing it permanently into place. Osseointegration not only strengthens the implant, it acts as additional reinforcement to the adjacent teeth, preserving their alignment.

5. Dental Implants are Stronger Than Natural Teeth

Crafted from biocompatible materials that can support a significantly heavy load, implants are more durable than even your healthiest of teeth. In fact, we can use as few as four of them to anchor a full-arch denture or extended bridge into place.

Although dental implants are ideal for a majority of our Suffolk County patients, not everyone is a candidate. To find out if implant therapy is right for you, schedule a consultation with the Long Island dentists at Sachem Dental Group.