A Toronto dentist can do a lot of professional dental procedures and one of those procedures are dental implants which has been made even easier today by computers. Dental implants are not a new concept in North America as they have been associated with modern dentistry for quite a while now.
Even a general dentist in Toronto can perform this now simple procedure in which a titanium structure is placed inside the jaw bone and acts as a new root for a fake tooth to be placed on. The procedure is actually so simple that it can be performed using only a local anesthesia, in some cases though the procedure may be more complicated and require a general anesthesia which needs to be administered by a certified clinicians.
If all that is required is a single dental implant then the procedure can take less than an hour, but if multiple implants are needed the session can last a while longer depending on exactly how many you need. The healing process after having an implant procedure can take between three to six months after which crowns are fabricated and attached to the implants.
With some patients the implant procedure can be performed and restored in a single surgery, this is labeled "immediate loading". When these implants are performed a prosthetic tooth or crown will be shaped to avoid the transferring force of the patients bite while it integrates with the bone. There are a few different approaches to place dental implants after tooth extraction.
The success of the dental implant procedure is based on a few circumstances like operator skill, quality and quantity of the bone available and the patient's overall oral hygiene. The actual success rate of dental implants is generally around 95% which is mostly determined by the achievement and maintenance of implant stability.
There are other contributing factors to the success of implant placement like most surgical procedures the most important of all being the patients compliance with post-surgical care.