Dental Implants

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Why a Dental Implant?
Improving your smile and oral health

When you lose a tooth, your adjacent teeth may shift over time. This can create unsightly gaps. A dental implant can help prevent this process.

Eat What You Want

With a dental implant, your new tooth is strong and durable, just like your natural tooth, so you can comfortably eat all your favorite foods.

A Lifelong Solution

Kirby and Florida Dental provides dental implants that are a long-lasting solution - often for life.

Restored Confidence

A beautiful new smile can give you back the confidence you may have lost. It can transform your life.

The Traditional Option
Improving your smile and oral health

When you lose a tooth, your adjacent teeth may shift over time. This can create unsightly gaps. A dental implant can help prevent this process.

Replacing a Missing Tooth

Everyone deserves a beautiful smile. With the tremendous advances in esthetic dentistry, there's no reason to put up with anything less. Dental implants and crowns can now easily, comfortably, and beautifully replace a missing tooth.

The Traditional Option
A 3-Unit Bridge

Historically, a bridge was used to replace a single missing tooth. Bridges are constructed of metal sub-frames with tooth-colored porcelain applied to approximate the natural color of your existing teeth.

Bridges use the teeth on either side of your missing tooth to provide support for the artificial tooth that fills the space where your natural tooth is missing.

The goal of the bridge is to chewing function and achieve an acceptable esthetic outcome.

Unfortunately, bone under the replacement tooth is no longer stimulated by chewing and is often resorbed into the body, creating as slowly expanding gap between the replacement tooth and the gum.

Key Attributes
- Slightly less expensive
- Restores chewing function
- Acceptable esthetics

Considerations
- Requires grinding down of healthy adjacent teeth
- Potential for increased risk to the prepared teeth
- Bone resorbtion causes a gap between your tooth and your gum over time
- Limited life span
- May contain metal; possible allergic reaction

The State-of-the-Art Solution
Single Tooth Dental Implant

Dental implants provide a more advanced replacement technology for a missing tooth than a traditional bridge. Dental implants eliminate the need for grinding down healthy teeth.

Dental implants are small metal posts designed specifically to replace your natural tooth root. Manufactured from titanium, dental implants provide a highly biocompatible surface, encouraging bone to attach to the implant during the healing process to ensure long term results.

Dental implants stimulate the underlying bone, helping to maintain your facial appearance.

Restoring your tooth with all-ceramic components (crown and abutment) can result in a beautiful, natural-looking tooth, just like the rest of your teeth.

Key attributes
- Preserves your healthy teeth - no grinding required on adjacent teeth
- Bone integrity is preserged for long lasting esthetics
- Long-term solution - often for life

Considerations
- Slightly higher cost than bridge