Dental Implants in the Bronx, NY

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Dental implants are the ultimate solution for tooth loss, solving the problems caused by missing teeth. There are many different dental implant solutions to consider when deciding which tooth replacement option is best for you. Our experienced dental implant dentist can assess your bone structure and determine if you are a suitable candidate for dental implants. At 505 Dental Associates, located in the Bronx, NY, we provide the most cost-effective options to replace one or multiple missing teeth. We use only the best quality medical-grade titanium or titanium alloy teeth implants. We are open on Saturday and Sunday to work around your schedule, whether you need a mini, full mouth, or a single tooth implant.

What Is a Dental Implant?

It wasn’t too long ago that if you suffered from tooth loss due to decay, disease, or injury, the only treatment options available to you were bridges or dentures. Today, there’s another option. Dental implants have revolutionized dental care.

Wide Variety of Dental Implant Solutions

All-on-4 Dental Implants

If you are missing all your natural teeth, you may have already begun exploring possible options other than full dentures. While dentures are a reliable way to replace missing teeth affordably, they can often cause real problems. A denture can initially fit well and stay securely in place, this may change due to jawbone changes after real teeth are removed.

With All-on-4 dental implants, its possible to permanently secure an entire upper or lower arch of teeth with only four implants. You don’t have to struggle with loose and uncomfortable dentures or messy denture adhesives. All-on-Four implants are affordable and are a technique that has already helped many people worldwide.

An ideal candidate for All-on-4 dental implants:

• Missing most or all of your teeth on the lower or upper jaw
• Currently wearing full dentures
• Have enough bone in your upper and lower jaw to hold the titanium implants
• Currently wearing full dentures

Implant Overdenture

An overdenture is designed to fit over dental implants. It is held securely in the mouth by several dental implants, and the exact number can vary according to the strength and quantity of your jawbone and whether you require an upper or lower denture (in some cases, when replacing a lower arch of teeth, just two dental implants are needed).

An implant-supported denture clips onto special fittings on the actual implants, ensuring that it cannot move once it is clipped into place, but you can still remove it easily when you want to clean your denture or clean around your dental implants.

Fixed Denture

A fixed denture is also supported by dental implants and has simulated gum tissue, but the gum tissue can be made from porcelain and supports porcelain teeth.

Implant Bridge

If you lose multiple teeth in the same area of your mouth, your dentist can place several dental implants to support an implant bridge that is either cemented or screwed onto the implants and which remains firmly fixed in place.

A dental implant bridge uses the teeth adjacent to the gap for support. These teeth are substantially reshaped by your dentist and are covered with dental crowns. An implant bridge or implant crown is only removable by a dentist.

Why Is Dental Implant So Special?

When you lose real teeth, your dentist remove the entire tooth, including its root, that previously extended quite away into your jawbone. The tooth root helps to stabilize the tooth, anchoring it firmly in place and ensuring it is strong enough for you to bite and chew your food.

A dental implant’s main component is the post or screw inserted into the jawbone, replacing a real tooth root. Once in the bone, something unique happens as the implant post is called osteophilic, meaning it is bone loving, and it quickly becomes fused with the bone around it in a process called Osseointegration. Once Osseointegration is complete, the implant post is firmly fused in place, allowing for no movement at all. It’s a structure that also helps to prevent bone loss.

Real tooth roots help preserve and protect the bone around them as every time you bite on a tooth, the stresses of these biting forces transmit through the tooth, into the tooth root, and out into the bone around it. These stresses tell the body that it must continue renewing old bone cells as they die off.