Dental Implants Procedures in New York City

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Missing teeth cause one to feel self-conscious. Whether it’s one, several, or a row of missing teeth, dental implants give you the perfect and confident smile that you deserve! With the proper restoration treatment and ongoing dental maintenance, dental implants could provide our New York City patients with many years of problem-free use, so it pays to choose your implant dentist in NYC with care.

Types of Dental Implant Procedures

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Microscope-Assisted Precision Implants Dentistry on the Upper East Side, NYC

Most dental implant specialists in the USA are using either simple or compound loupes mounted on glasses frames. We recognize that quality and precision are very important to produce aesthetically perfect dental implants.

Therefore, we are using a high-precision microscope that has the potential to enhance a dental implant specialist vision to unprecedented levels. Microscope becomes a standard and a necessary tool in NYC Dental Implants Center for polishing and finishing teeth margins and for contouring teeth and teeth implants.

Microscope assisted precision implants dentistry

Computer-Guided Surgery

Every implant treatment is planned and performed using computer-guided surgery and an advanced technique that ensures our patients receive optimally placed implants that look and function perfectly. Computer-guided surgery helps avoid the potential risks of poorly placed implants, resulting in faster, more comfortable treatment and quicker healing.

What Are Dental Implants?

nyc dental implants center advanced technology Dental implants (also known as endosseous implants) are essentially replacement teeth made from medical-grade titanium posts. Implant post interfaces with the bone of the jaw or skull to hold a prosthesis such as a crown, bridge, denture, or facial prosthesis or to act as an orthodontic anchor.

Our dentist surgically fuses the post of the dental implants with the bone in your upper or lower jaw. Once the post is implanted, our skilled periodontist Dr. Rahmani cap the post with a tooth-colored, natural-looking dental crown, bridge, or denture. Dental implants will help you smile more, chew better, and speak more clearly.

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Am I a Candidate for Dental Implants?

Candidates for dental implants in NYC must have good general and oral health due to the surgical procedure involved. One needs healthy gum tissue, no periodontal disease, and sufficient bone to anchor the post of the dental implant with which will gradually fuse with the bone.

“Am I too old for dental implants?” is a frequently asked question. The short answer is no. Dental implants have no upper age limit and have already helped numerous people well into their eighties or nineties. Besides, this treatment can help protect or improve your overall health by allowing you to eat the foods necessary to fight infection and disease more effectively.

Will Dental Implants Be Successful?

For many patients in our New York City office, dental implants offer the greatest success rate than any other surgical implant procedure. The success rate is due to the fact that the lightweight titanium posts used in dental implants fuse so easily with the jawbone in a process called osseointegration. Once the procedure is done, there is no worry of the body rejecting the post of the dental implants. Besides, Dr. Rahmani carefully evaluates patients before recommending dental implants and never suggests implants unless they’re the best treatment option. Computerized treatment planning and implant placement also significantly improve the success of treatment.

What Can I Expect After the Implant?

In the weeks and months after getting dental implants in our NYC implants center, you will learn to treat them like your natural teeth. Our dentist and periodontist will work closely with you following the procedure to ensure that you maintain good oral health.

Dental implants are easy to care for. However, it is vital that you carefully follow our instructions. Proper oral care will help you maintain strong and healthy dental implants, allowing you to get the most out of them. We also strongly recommend regular checkups and professional dental cleanings. These checkups allow us to make sure your dental implants and especially the tissues surrounding them are healthy.

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Manhattan Periodontics has saved the health of my teeth and mouth. I’ve been seeing Dr. Rahmani for a year. When I came in I had very advanced periodontics disease and more dental issues than I knew what to do with. I had been struggling with this for years and seeing Dentists who shamed me and made me think this was my fault. Through Dr. Rahmani I learned that simply wasn’t the case. He has worked with me to get everything back to where it’s supposed to be, if not better. You can tell he thinks about his patients all the time and is constantly working to insure that his patients receive the absolute best care. The staff all know who I am and I’m treated like family when I walk in the door. It has been such a relief to find this office.

Whitney Keeter

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I came so desperate with my severe recession, I thought it’s not fixable. But dr. Rahmani was so patient, kind and knowledgeable. I’ve never got the treatment like that. My smile went through total makeover. The all team in the office was very helpful and professional. High recommendations!

Tatiana Glushchenko

FAQ’s

Who Is a Suitable Candidate for Dental Implants?

It is one of the most frequently asked questions by our patients in New York City, and it is crucially important, but you might be surprised at the answer. The truth is that most people can have dental implants, but you need to be over age 18, and your teeth and jaws must have finished growing and developing. Also, you must have a reasonable level of dental health, and you shouldn’t have any serious general health problems that could affect treatment. People with poor overall health may find their health issues interfere with this healing process, so it is slower and may ultimately result in implant failure. An experienced implant dentist Dr. Navid Rahmani considers every patient individually when deciding if dental implants are the right treatment and will provide a reasonable level of success.

When to Choose Dental Implants?

Bone resorption is one reason why your dental implant dentist will recommend having dental implants as soon as possible after natural tooth loss. However, if it’s been years since you lost your teeth, then don’t despair as there are solutions that can help rebuild your bone. An experienced implant dentist can provide the latest bone grafting and even gum grafting techniques to restore missing tissues, ensuring that once your implants are placed, they are surrounded with plenty of strong bone with which they can bond.

Improved facial appearance: Patients missing multiple teeth often have facial features that look as if they have collapsed. This is because of the loss of the jawbone and a minimal support for the lips and cheeks. Dental implants restore facial dimensions accurately, ensuring your facial muscles receive the correct support. It is an effect that can help to rejuvenate your appearance, filling out fine lines, wrinkles, and folds, creating a more youthful look.

Improved nutrition: It is extremely difficult to eat properly without healthy teeth. Hence, many people with missing teeth prefer soft, bland, and easy to chew foods with little nutritional value. Dental implants improve your bite strength and make chewing easier, allowing you to enjoy a wide range of tasty and nutritious meals.

Are Dental Implants Painful?

Dental implants require oral surgery, a thought that can be terrifying for anyone with dental anxiety. This is when oral sedation can help significantly, ensuring even people who feel extreme fear at the thought of receiving dental care can comfortably have dental implants fitted. In our office, we use nitrous oxide or laughing gas, or oral sedation. Sedation dentistry is extremely safe and is used routinely in our office for placing dental implants.

Most patients won’t feel any discomfort when the anesthesia wears off, especially if they received one or two implants. Even if you do experience some discomfort, it will typically subside within a few days and can be managed with over-the-counter pain relievers.

How Long Do Dental Implants Last?

Dental implants offer a reliable way to restore your smile and are often a long-term solution that can last for decades or life, provided you care for them correctly. While dental implants are made from artificial materials, don’t forget that living tissues including gum and bone, surround them. If you don’t look after your dental implants regularly, then these structures can become infected, leaving you with the real possibility of implant failure.

How Long Does a Dental Implant Procedure Take?

The process to plan and place dental implants normally requires several visits to our dental office, and treatment may take even longer if you need additional procedures such as bone or gum grafting before implant surgery. While we offer Teeth in a Day, or even Teeth in an Hour it’s important to realize that while these treatments are excellent and can help some people, they may not be right for everybody. Being realistic about the time required for dental implants is important, as it’s a treatment that shouldn’t be rushed. You should be guided by the best dental implants NYC specialist Dr. Rahmani as to which is the most beneficial solution for your needs rather than choosing something that seems like a quick fix, but which may not ultimately last as long.

Are Dental Implants Permanent?

Dental implants offer a reliable way to restore your smile and are often a long-term solution that can last for decades or life, provided you care for them correctly.

What Are Dental Implants Made Of?

Dr. Rahmani’s center relies on Straumann, a Swiss company that manufactures high-quality dental implants. The posts can be made from titanium or zirconium. The advantage of using a zirconium dental implant is its color which prevents any dark metal from showing through the gums. This could be useful if your gum tissue is thinner than normal or if gum recession is a problem. With titanium dental implants there is a risk of corrosion which isn’t present with zirconium dental implants. Because we utilize computerized surgery to place modern titanium dental implants properly, the risk of corrosion is extremely small.

What Are the Disadvantages of Dental Implants?

Treatment isn’t right for everybody: If your body cannot heal properly, it will affect Osseointegration and may mean the implants cannot fuse with the jawbone correctly and will ultimately fail. Also, there is a greater risk that implants will become infected.

Good ongoing oral hygiene is critical: Without good ongoing oral hygiene, tissues surrounding Dental implants become infected and diseased and can potentially cause dental implant failure. This failure can occur soon after implant placement or years afterward. It is crucial to make sure you are committed to maintaining excellent oral hygiene, cleaning around your dental implants meticulously to prevent infection.

Dental implants can fail: Just like any treatment, there is the possibility of failure. A small percentage of dental implants will fail and although this risk can be minimized with good ongoing oral care, it cannot be eliminated. Sometimes dental implants can fail after many years of trouble-free use.

Which Are Better Dentures or Dental Implants?

Often, people with dentures will find they slip and move around alarmingly, making it tricky to eat many foods, and social occasions can become embarrassing. While a fixed bridge of teeth can seem a preferable solution, dental implants are ideal for securing loose dentures. Using dental implants to secure these dentures is a very cost-effective solution as fewer implants are needed than to hold a fixed bridge of teeth. This more affordable option opens up treatment to many more people. An implant denture combines the best of fixed implant prostheses and traditional dentures.

The main issue with dentures is that they rest on the gums and rely solely on the gums and underlying bone for support and retention. The pressure exerted by dentures resting on the gums hastens bone loss, and the more bone loss, the less retention. As a result, dentures quickly become ill-fitting, uncomfortable and loose, and difficult to wear.

Which Is Better, a Fixed Bridge or Dental Implant?

Unlike a fixed bridge that needs the adjacent teeth for support, a dental implant is self-supporting. Implant teeth are strong and stable and function just like real teeth. It’s designed to replace a tooth root artificially with a small titanium or zirconia post. The post is surgically implanted into the jawbone and is highly biocompatible, which means it bonds quickly with the surrounding bone. Once fused in place, it is strong enough to support the replacement tooth in the form of a dental crown. Because your gum tissue surrounds the dental crown, it emerges from the gum just like a real tooth and looks amazingly natural. In comparison, the replacement tooth used in a dental bridge merely rests on the gums, and while it looks great, the overall effect isn’t quite so realistic.

Additionally, a replacement bridge tooth that rests on the gums won’t protect the underlying jawbone, whereas a single implant artificially replaces the natural tooth root, helping prevent bone loss. With a fixed bridge, your neighboring, supporting teeth must be significantly reshaped, sacrificing potentially healthy tooth structure. Removing this structure can increase your risk of infection and decay, especially when the fixed bridge begins to leak as it ages. A dental implant is also more cost-effective in the long run. When it comes time to replace these restorations, a three-tooth, also called a three-unit bridge, will be more expensive than a single implant crown.

Dr. Rahmani is a top-rated NYC dental implant specialist and an internationally recognized, board-certified periodontist. All procedures are performed in our Manhattan dental center on the Upper East Side. If you have any questions about the implants or make an appointment, please call our Midtown dental implants center:

NYC Dental Implants Center
121 East 60th St Ste 6C2
New York, New York 10065
(60th St. btw Park Ave / Lex Ave)
212-256-0000

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