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Dental Implantology
Dental implants in Catania
Regain your smile in less than 24 hours.
If you have lost one or more teeth and wish to return to smiling with confidence, dental implants in Catania are the ideal solution. Thanks to modern technologies and advanced implant techniques, you can regain fixed, natural and functional teeth even in less than 24 hours.
Implantology: What is a dental implant ?
If you are missing a tooth, the simplest and most conservative thing to do is to put in a dental implant. An implant is an artificial root made of titanium. The dentist screws it into the bone, and a ceramic tooth can be attached to it. The teeth next to it are not touched.
A dental implant consists of a titanium post that is inserted into the jawbone in place of the root of the missing natural tooth, acting as a support for the new tooth. The implant is composed of two basic components, namely, a part that corresponds to the root of the tooth that is inserted within bone/gum during the surgical act and then another component that corresponds to the crown of the tooth that is screwed or cemented to the primary component/root via a connecting abutment.
Implants transmit masticatory forces to the jawbone, which results in the preservation of natural jawbone and helps support facial structure.
With conventional methods, the replacement of a single tooth element by the bridge would involve filing and thus a significant biological sacrifice of tooth substance for the two teeth adjacent to the missing tooth, and in addition, the bridge, by not transmitting chewing forces to the underlying bone, would not allow the preservation of natural jaw bone.
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Modern implantology
Today, with modern implantology, it is possible to rehabilitate from single teeth to mouths with many compromised dental elements or even to completely edentulous mouths without any residual dental elements, and in all of the above cases there are completely reliable standardized procedures that allow for quick and painless restoration of chewing function.
Healing phase
The healing phase following implant placement surgery lasts from 6 to 12 weeks, depending on the specific condition of each patient, but in particularly favorable cases with the presence of bone in perfect condition, which allows immediate stability of the implant in contact with the bone, there is also the possibility of placing the tooth(crown) immediately and then practicing so-called immediate loading, and that is, a temporary crown is placed on the implant on the same day as the implant placement surgery and then the final crown is performed a few weeks later.
When implantology first began to take its first steps, the prevailing trend was to place, in the mouths of patients with missing some teeth or no teeth at all, almost one implant for each missing tooth element.
Implantology trend today
Today the trend is completely reversed and several scientific studies also support the rehabilitation of an entire dental arch using only 4 implants in the “ALL on four” systematics and moreover if before we tried to place the implants parallel to each other and according to the load axis of mastication already for several years we have seen at the scientific level that even tilted implants “tilted implants” present excellent response in functional and biological terms so that unlike a few years ago when large bone reconstruction procedures were often performed just to have the correct axis of mastication scientific level as well as tilted implants “tilted implants” present an excellent response in functional and biological terms so that unlike a few years ago when extensive bone reconstruction procedures were often carried out precisely to have a correct axis of insertion of the implants for the purpose then of the realization of the prosthetic crowns(teeth), now the planning of angled implants allows better use of the availability of residual bone in patients’ mouths by bypassing sensitive anatomical structures (e.g. maxillary sinus, inferior alveolar nerve) and allowing surgery with minimal invasiveness compared to yesterday.
Fixed restoration on four implants "ALL on four"
Computer guided implant surgery: implantology without a scalpel
This is one of the most recent acquisitions in the field of implant surgery and allows the surgeon a template-assisted implant placement whose realization is done digitally, by means of computerized software, following a CT programming of the 3D position of the implant within the bone crest. This method in some cases, which are particularly favorable due to conditions of available bone volumes, allows the surgeon to avoid incision and opening of the gingiva by scalpel and consequently the need to give stitches since there is no seam or surgical wound to suture.