Implant-Supported Crown for Single Missing Tooth

Approximately four to five months later, the implant has should hve fused with the bone. We are then ready to connect the laboratory constructed crown to the implant and load the tooth (bring this implant into normal oral function). For most patients, the implant integration into oral neurophysiology occurs immediately. For some, including myself (I, Dr Nalbandian have implants in my mouth as well) it took about one to three months to accept that this is a normal part of my mouth. So patients do differ and quite frankly, after placement of implants and crowns, bridges etc. and treatment of thousands of patients, no one has asked me to remove a single implant. On the contrary, they come back for more dental implant placements. This is the real test, since patients have had time to evaluate their past experience with dental implants. The patients do come back, because they can eat, speak and smile with their new fixed teeth!

Then you as the patient have the responsibility to carry out home care and maintain the health and the stability of the tissues around the implant crown. Although we cannot control biology, with your help, if you do not smoke and regularly attends our clinic and the referring dentist for regular dental maintenance and implant reviews, we can maintain the implant over the long term. You will be educated about the limitations of complex aesthetics as part of your diagnostic process.