Dental Implants

Dental Implants | Albany, NY

Before the development of dental implants, dentures were the only alternative to replacing a missing tooth or teeth.

5 Extraordinary Benefits of Dental Implants

Dental Implants | Dentist in Albany, NY | Rose Dental Associates

Thinking about dental implants? Dental implants are the gold standard in the replacement of teeth. Rose Dental Associates in Albany offers a full range of dental services, including dental implants. Here are five extraordinary benefits of dental implants.

#1- Beautify Your Smile

Missing teeth can ruin a beautiful smile. Dental implants can fill in your smile's gaps and improve your appearance. Dental implants are the next best thing to natural teeth. With dental implants, you will look and feel younger and more attractive.

#2- Improve Oral Function

Dental implants fit, feel, and act like natural teeth. Missing teeth can make it difficult for people to pronounce certain words. Dental implants can improve your clarity of speech. Tooth loss can also make it difficult for people to chew food. With dental implants, you will experience a dramatic improvement in chewing ability.

#3- Stop Jawbone Loss

The most common cause of jawbone loss is a missing tooth left unreplaced. Dental implants help to prevent bone loss and stimulate bone growth. Dental implants distribute chewing forces throughout the bone and minimize the wearing away of the bone.

#4- Prevent Teeth Shifting

Although your teeth feel as if they are set in the jawbone, they are capable of drifting out of place. When people lose a tooth, the surrounding teeth begin to shift out of place. Dental implants can prevent your existing teeth from moving out of place.

#5- Increase Your Self-Esteem

Losing a tooth can be a traumatic experience for many people. Tooth loss can lead to low self-esteem which can affect the quality of a people's lives in many different ways. Dental implants can restore your smile and help you feel better about yourself.

Dental Implant Restoration

The highly-skilled dentists at Rose Dental Associates offer a wide range of restorative dental treatments, including dental implant restorations. Drs. Santoro, Champa, Beer, and Hageman believe dental implants provide the most natural-looking and functioning tooth replacement choice available today in in Albany, NY.

It All Starts with Tooth Loss

The need for state of the art tooth replacement options begins with tooth loss. Accident, extensive decay, and congenital defect can compromise tooth structure to the extent that extraction is the only course of action. Additionally, advanced gum disease, or periodontitis, remains the number one cause of tooth loss among American adults, according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.

Fortunately, tooth loss--involving one tooth or multiples--does not have to spoil smile aesthetics, facial features, eating or speaking. The dentists at Rose Dental Associates in Albany have the expertise to evaluate prospective implant patients and to place custom-fabricated dental implants and lifelike restorations, such as porcelain crowns, for well-functioning, no-gap smiles.

The Implant Process

Sometimes patients require bone grafting from human or animal sources to augment jaw bone weakened by extraction. This relatively quick and comfortable process provides a stable base for in-office insertion of a metal dental implant device.

Composed of titanium, the dental implant screws right into the jaw. The dentists at Rose Dental Associates use cutting edge dental implants known for their design stability and affinity for human bone. Through a process called osseointegration, the dental implant melds with the jaw, providing it with a large measure of strength and density.

After some healing time, the dentist places an extension post on the implant and then a custom-fabricated porcelain crown as the final dental implant restoration. Dental implants and their restorations may be placed singly or in multiples. They also support partial or full dentures for the best fitting, biting and speaking available to the restorative dentistry patient.

Life with Dental Implant Restorations

Dental implants last for a lifetime, says the Academy of Osseointegration. They do not decay or shift position. The only real threat to their survival is peri-implantitis, a inflammatory and infectious process much like advanced gum disease. Peri-implantitis comes from:

  • smoking or chewing tobacco
  • poor oral or overall health (uncontrolled diabetes, for example)
  • negligent dental hygiene

With good in-home brushing and flossing and regular preventive visits to Rose Dental Associates these restorations function well and look great for decades.

Thinking Dental Implants are right for you? Call Rose Dental Associates in Albany, NY at (518) 456-7673 for more information or to schedule an appointment. Call Today!

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Monday

9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Tuesday

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Thursday

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Monday
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Thursday
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday
Closed
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
Closed