What is a dental implant: it is a titanium structure, with a shape that resembles a screw, which is inserted through a surgical access, into the maxillary bones to replace the root of one or more missing teeth.
This "new root" will then offer the anchorage for one or more teeth that are completely similar to the natural ones.
In the case of partial edentulism (lack of a tooth or a group of teeth), making use of implant insertions allows us to avoid preparation of the teeth surrounding the area to be treated, otherwise necessary in the case, for example, of a bridge fixed performed on two elements to compensate for the lack of a single tooth.
Further conditions in which implant placement can be advantageous are partial edentulous situations consisting of the lack of several teeth simultaneously on one or more sides of the arches: it is thus possible to avoid partial prostheses that are too large or not sufficiently satisfactory.
In cases of complete edentulism (arches completely devoid of dental elements), the insertion of an adequate number of implants can again provide a chewing capacity and comfort very similar to those of arches made up of natural teeth.
Implantology interventions have a high success rate and studies have been performed that have demonstrated their functionality for periods of more than 35 years. Treatment based on implants inserted in our patients begins in 1994: 20 years later the implants inserted are still fully functional.