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Rebuild your Smile with Natural-Looking Implants
If you have lost teeth, even if it’s not in the smile zone, it’s good to cover that gap immediately. Leaving gaps in your mouth affects not only your appearance but also your oral structure and functionality. Due to missing teeth, other teeth start shifting and loosening, possibly losing yet another tooth. Besides, that gap affects your chewing ability, slurs speech, and causes bone loss.
While you can replace your missing teeth with dentures or bridges, dental implants from Positive Image Dental are the closest thing to your natural teeth. Dental implants mimic your natural teeth from looks to performance—and they last for life!
The Dental Implant Procedure
Want to replace your missing tooth with a dental implant? Here is what to expect when you see us for implant-based restoration.
- Implant consultation: Getting dental implants starts with a consultation with an implant dentist. The objective is to determine the health of your gums and teeth. Do you have cavities? What about gum disease? Before proceeding with the dental implant procedure, we recommend treating these ailments because they can compromise the success of the dental implant. Your dental consultation doesn’t end there. The next step is to determine the health of your bone. Do you have enough jawbone to support an implant? If not, we recommend dental grafting or mini dental implants.
- Dental implant surgery: This procedure involves surgically inserting a titanium screw into your jawbone. Before the process, you are fully anesthetized for maximum comfort. Next, we drill your jawbone, insert an implant post, and suture the surgical site to kick start the healing process.
- Healing: Your implant post needs about 4-6 months to heal and fuse with the jawbone. Once the fusion happens, your implant post is locked in place to support one or more tooth prostheses.
- Implant Impression: Our dental team performs a second minor surgery to install an abutment (connector) after healing and takes an impression to tell our lab how to build your tooth! The abutment is attached to the implant post and protrudes above the gum line to support a crown or other tooth prosthesis.
- Crown placement: After 4-6 weeks it’s time to complete the dental implant process with a crown, bridge, or denture. Now you can enjoy your newfound smile, which looks and functions like your natural teeth.
While traditional dental implants follow the above steps, you can get dental implants in one appointment, popularly known as “teeth in a day.” With same-day dental implants, the implant post, abutment, and tooth restoration are placed in one day. This means you can use your new teeth after leaving our dental clinic.
Benefits of Dental Implants
If you are missing teeth, a dental implant isn’t just limited to a single tooth replacement—implants are also beneficial to fully edentulous patients. The other benefits of dental implants are:
- They last for life with proper oral hygiene.
- Taking care of dental implants isn’t any different from maintaining your natural teeth.
- Dental implants prevent the surviving teeth from shifting.
- Implant-based restorations prevent bone loss.
- They restore your full oral functionality, close to having 100% natural teeth.
- Implants restore your confidence and esteem.
Ready to restore your smile with natural-looking dental implants? If you are in Bermuda, please dial (441) 292-2312 to book an appointment with Positive Image Dental for durable and affordable implant dentistry services. Our dental team of Drs. Ian Campbell, Christopher Allington, and Lara Loescher have the experience, skills, and technology to install implants with precision and lifelike results.
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The Positive Image Dental team comprises three doctors:
Ian Campbell, DMD graduated
from Saltus Grammar School, Mount Allison University, and McGill University Dental School. He has
over 40 years of experience in dentistry and is reputed for providing high-quality dental care in
Bermuda. Dr. Campbell is passionate about lifelong learning and staying abreast of the latest trends
in dentistry.
Christopher Allington, DMD is
an alumnus of the University of Queens, McGill Dental School, and University of Connecticut. He has
been practicing in Bermuda for over 12 years and is a member, past president, and chair of the
Bermuda Dental Association and Bermuda Dental Board. He is a Fellow of the Academy of General
Dentistry and International Congress of Oral Implantology and is registered for fellowship in the
International Association of Orthodontics.
Dr. Lara Loescher BDS, MFDS
RCSEd is a graduate of Bermuda High School and University of Bristol, a member of the Royal
College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and is completing a Masters in Aesthetic and Restorative
dentistry. She has been practicing general and cosmetic dentistry, including Invisalign, for over 13
years and is interested in diabetes management.
Dr. Faraz, BSc, BDS, MA, is
passionate about all aspects of high-quality dentistry, especially endodontics and cosmetic
dentistry. His enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies and techniques keeps him grounded in
minimally invasive dentistry.
Dr. Faraz earned his doctorate in dentistry from King’s College London in 2011 after earning a bachelor’s degree in Human Sciences. He worked in Oxfordshire for ten years before moving to London to work full-time at his family practice. Dr. Faraz routinely pursues additional training to improve his skill in rebuilding exceptionally natural-looking teeth.
He gains tremendous satisfaction from supporting anxious patients in overcoming their dental phobias via his passion and patience, restoring confidence in their oral health. Dr. Faraz looks forward to serving you with all your needs while ensuring your trust is always in safe hands.