Are dental implants in Melbourne the right solution for your smile?

When you look at an 8-year-old and they’ve got a tooth or two missing, it can look very cute. Not so if you are an adult. Losing a tooth as an adult is not uncommon, but it’s not a good idea to keep the gappy look, not just in terms of beauty, but also for your oral health. Those unattractive gaps also affect the teeth around them, which are now more likely to suffer problems, including falling out themselves. One great way to fix this problem is with dental implants.

dental implant in Melbourne

At High Dental Implants Melbourne, we have built a dental clinic around supplying people in Melbourne with the most effective treatment for tooth loss. What makes them so great is that they replace the whole tooth, including the root, which dentures and bridges cannot to. Roots are what teeth need if they are to be strong and stable.

How dental implants work

We take a very small titanium post and insert it into the jawbone. Over the next few months, the implants fuse with the bone to become so stable they won’t move at all, once we put crown on them and you start using them.

We can put on either a single crown, or a row of crowns on a bridge or an entire arch on a fixed or removable denture. Each is attached with a connecting piece called an abutment. The crown part is usually made of either hand-crafted porcelain or composite resin, which is shaped and coloured to blend in with your own teeth.

We use a bridge to support of 2 or 3 teeth in a row. One implant can support up to 3 teeth, and means that you don’t have to compromise the integrity of the neighbouring teeth, as you do when you have an ordinary bridge supported by buttress crowns.

When you need to have all your teeth replaced, we can fit you with implant-supported dentures. These can be secured in place with just 4 implants with a technique called multiple implants, or with mini-implants if you already have dentures and want to stop them wobbling.

Come in and find out if you can benefit from dental implants in Melbourne.