Through injury, decay, root damage, gum disease, or chronic wear you may loose teeth. A dental implant is an artificial tooth root that is fixed to your jawbone. A replacement tooth or bridge is fitted to the dental implant that looks and functions normally. Dental implants are a great way to replace your missing teeth.

Benefits of Implant Dentistry

• Successful: The success rate of dental implant restorations is over 90% for the upper jaw and over 95% for the lower jaw.
• Looks Great: Dental implants restore your smile with healthy, natural-looking teeth
• A Permanent Solution: Compared to other restorative options such as bridges and dentures, dental implants are stronger and longer lasting.
• Natural: A dental implant looks and feels like a normal tooth
• Easy Maintenance: Dental implants don’t decay and they are easy to clean
• All You Can Eat: You can eat normal foods because the dental implant is anchored to your jaw.
• Effective: The underlying bone structure is preserved while the dental implant supports a dental crown replacing a single tooth or a bridge replacing multiple teeth. Dental implants can also add stability and reduce irritation of gum tissue with dentures.
• No More Damage: Dental Implants don’t affect surrounding teeth.
  

The Dental Implant Procedure

The entire dental implant procedure, from diagnosis to dental implant placement to the crown restoration, is all performed in our Denver area office on Lincoln Avenue in Lone Tree. This is not only convenient, it also provides implant dentistry patients with a continuity of care that can get lost when going from one office to another.

There are several steps to the dental implant procedure that happen over a period of time:

• Your Denver dentist at Almeida and Bell Aesthetic Dental Center near Highlands Ranch does an examination of the area with x-rays
• To fit the dental implant, a tiny hole is drilled where there is no tooth. This hole guides a small titanium screw into the jawbone. This procedure is done by an oral surgeon right here in our office in Lone Tree.
• On top, a protective cover screw is placed to allow the site to heal. Over a period of several months, the implant site heals and the dental implant anchors to the bone through a process of osseointegration.
• When the site has healed, the protective cover is removed by your Denver dental right here in our implant dentistry office in Lone Tree and a temporary crown is placed on the dental implant.
• When the gum grows and shapes itself naturally around the temporary dental crown, a permanent porcelain crown will replace the temporary crown.
• Your porcelain crown now functions like a normal tooth. Although the dental implant cannot form cavities, it is recommended to continue good oral hygiene to protect the surrounding area.

Denver dentists Drs. Adam Almeida and Paul Bell skillfully position the dental crown or permanent tooth after a partnered oral surgeon places the dental implant.  You no longer need to worry about missing teeth.  Dental implants can restore your full smile!

To learn more about how dental implants can help you, call our Almeida and Bell Aesthetic Dental Center implant dentistry office today in Lone Tree, next to Highlands Ranch, CO, at (720) 306-8057 or send the simple form on the right, and we will be glad to contact you. 

 

 

 

 

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In the News

Dr. Donald Almeida and Dr. Adam Almeida have a regular eight-minute segment about cosmetic dentistry on “Colorado & Co.,” a program that airs from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. every other Friday on Denver NBC affiliate KUSA Channel 9. In one of their segments, the Almeidas offered a “smile makeover” for a lucky contest winner to give as a Mother’s Day gift.

Watch Drs. Don and Adam Almeida on Colorado & Company -- 9 News!

See samples of some past shows:

April 21, 2006

April 28, 2006

September 22, 2006