Dental implants: the only permanent way to replace missing teeth

Dental implants are one of the most exciting developments in modern dentistry, with some 30 years of research behind them and many happy patients who have used them to restore their smile. At Aura Dental in North London our implantology team has helped to improve both the aesthetic appearance and the functionality of scores of patient’s smiles with the help of implants.

How dental implants work

Teeth are made up of two parts – the visible crowns and the roots below the gum line. Dental implants replace the root part of one or more missing teeth, enabling your dentist to attach realistic-looking, realistic-acting restorations on top.

At our North London dental practice, we offer two options for patients interested in replacing missing teeth with dental implants: a single implant with a single crown to replace one missing tooth, or an implant-retained bridge for patients with more than one missing tooth.

Dental implants are placed straight into your jaw bone in a small surgical procedure, carried out here in the comfort of our North London practice by an experienced implant dentist. Once in position, the implants mesh with the bone and provide a strong anchor for new teeth.

Because they are made from titanium, which is supportive of bone growth, implants also help to support the common side-effect of tooth loss which is bone resorbtion – the jaw bone is prone to shrink back when the tooth roots are missing.

In most cases, when dental implants are placed, a healing period of a few months is required before your permanent new teeth can be attached. For a single tooth, one implant can support one crown, but the good news is that if you have several missing teeth, a single implant can often support more than one new tooth in the form of an implant-retained bridge.