Look! No gap!

Having gaps in your teeth doesn’t look good, especially if those gaps are at the front. Or maybe you have lost, or are losing, all your teeth and you want dental implants in St John’s Wood, but don’t’ want to be left with no teeth at all for months while your dental implants integrate with your jawbone.

Dental implants in St John’s Wood best mimic the natural teeth you have lost. They have replacement roots as well as crowns, whereas dentures and bridges only replace the crowns. This means you get superior stability, with no worries about teeth slipping or sliding around, and no need to give up the use of healthy teeth to support your false ones, as happens with bridges.

The thing about integration

However, the process that you have to go through in order to get your dental implants in St John’s Wood involves a period of several weeks when the implant we have inserted into specially created channels in your jawbone is integrating with the bone around it. During this time, as the bone grows new cells all over the implants, you cannot use the implants to bite and chew with.

Normally what happens is that, during the integration period, you have a gap in your mouth. It doesn’t look good and it can seem like integration goes on forever, but if you are having all of your teeth on one arch replaced, there is a way round this, with a technique called teeth in a day.

What is teeth in a day?

If you are having all your teeth replaced, or are replacing your dentures with dental implants, we replace them with either 4 implants on the lower arch, or 6 on the upper arch. Then we attach a temporary bridge to the implants, and you walk out with a fixed bridge in place.

You still have to be careful with your diet, eating soft foods, to allow your implants to integrate.

After you have had 4-6 months’ time to integrate the implants, you come back to us at Aura Dental and we fit you with a permanent metal-reinforced bridge.