Dental Implants
At Carolinas Centers for Oral & Facial Surgery, our surgeons use industry-leading precision and skill to position your dental implants quickly and efficiently, so you can leave our office with a beautiful smile that lasts. Whether you have missing or damaged teeth, dental implants are the gold standard in tooth replacement to restore your mouth’s functionality and elevate your quality of life.
Complete Your Smile With Dental Implants
Dental implants provide a long-term solution for individuals with missing or failing teeth. As a permanent and secure option for tooth replacement, patients can feel confident in their complete, healthy, and beautiful smiles. Patients can feel confident about having a full, healthy, beautiful smile with a permanent and secure tooth replacement option. Millions of patients have at least one dental implant, making them a leading choice for individuals and oral surgeons due to their versatility and performance. With dental implants, patients can achieve a smile that looks, feels, and functions like natural teeth. The doctors at Carolinas Center for Oral & Facial Surgery, with multiple offices across North and South Carolina, perform a wide range of oral and maxillofacial surgery procedures, including full-arch restoration.
Benefits of Dental Implants
Improve Oral Health
Replacing a missing or failing tooth or teeth is essential to maintain oral health. Dental implants can prevent issues common with missing teeth, such as bone loss, dental shifting, bacteria buildup in the tooth socket, oral infection, and more.
Permanence
Unlike traditional tooth restoration options, dental implants can last a lifetime with proper care. With regular brushing, flossing, and trips to the dentist, patients can make their implants last for years to come. In addition, since the dental implant post is fused with the jawbone, the prosthesis won’t slip or fall out of place.
No Food Restrictions
Patients with other tooth replacement solutions may be advised to avoid certain foods to prevent damage to the appliance. However, once healed, patients with dental implants experience the freedom to eat their favorite foods again. Dental implants make food such as steak, apples, nuts, and crusty breads possible!
Restore Facial Balance
Bone loss often accompanies tooth loss, leading to facial sagging. While loss of facial volume is a natural part of aging, jawbone loss due to missing teeth accelerates the process. With dental implants, facial esthetics and bone quantity can be preserved.
Meet Our Specialists
Our renowned multidisciplinary team collaborates to deliver a broad scope of dental implant-supported tooth restorations. Whether you need a single dental implant or a complete full arch, we have the right solution for you.
Types Of Dental Implants
Dental implants are a popular tooth replacement option. Many patients and oral surgeons favor dental implants because they are secure, permanent, attractive, and fully functional. Dental implants can be used for:
Single Tooth Replacements
Dental implants are ideal for someone looking to replace one or a few teeth. Most patients with dental implants cannot distinguish an artificial tooth from their natural teeth.
Implant-Supported Bridges
Implant-supported bridges work well to replace multiple teeth that are missing next to each other. Unlike traditional dentures, implant-supported bridges do not require healthy supporting teeth to be ground down to fit the prosthetic. Learn more about replacing multiple teeth.
Full-Arch Restoration
Full-arch restoration is a complete smile solution for patients with advanced tooth decay or who are missing all or nearly all of their teeth. With a full-arch restoration, an entire upper or lower arch of teeth is replaced using at least four dental implants for support. The results are natural-looking, secure, and fully functional.
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Immediate Implants
For a quick restoration option, immediate implants are placed right after a tooth extraction. This process allows the patient to experience the benefit of dental implants immediately and reduces the number of procedures.
Zygomatic Implants
Zygomatic implants are advanced dental implants used to replace teeth in the upper jaw when significant bone loss occurs. These implants are longer and slightly tilted than traditional implants, anchoring into the cheekbone (zygoma) rather than the jawbone.
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