Secure Your Smile with Long-lasting and Natural-looking Dental Implants

In an ideal world, you would wish to leave this earth with a full set of your natural teeth. But because a utopic world is far from reality, you can lose a tooth or more due to dental trauma, tooth decay, or other oral problems. Thankfully, Creo Dentistry offers patients in Marysville, Washington State, durable and natural-looking dental implants to fill up the blank spots in your grin.

Why you should replace your missing teeth

If you are missing teeth, it not only affects your appearance but impedes your overall oral functionality. Routine tasks like chewing and speaking become challenging. Over time, you start experiencing bone loss, and your face starts caving in. If you have lost one or several teeth, Dr. Dan Hwang recommends immediate treatment to preserve your looks and oral functionality.

And is there a better way to replace your teeth than dental implants? We don’t think so. Dental implants are the closest thing you will get to your natural teeth. Implants may be artificial, but they feel, look, and act like your natural teeth.

The dental implant procedure

Unlike dentures and bridges that replace the visible part of your tooth (the crown), dental implants replace your entire tooth, from the crown to the root. And because the dental implant is supposed to perform, feel, and look like your natural tooth, here is the step-by-step procedure for a durable tooth replacement:

• Consultation: A typical dental implant procedure starts with a consultation with Dr. Hwang. The aim is to examine your oral health, learn your medical history, educate you about the procedure, and answer your questions about the treatment.

• Preparatory treatments, where necessary: Have a severely decayed or damaged tooth? We will have to extract this first. Have gum disease or cavities? We will recommend appropriate treatments for seamless dental implant surgery. Don’t have sufficient jawbone to support an implant? We will recommend bone grafting to add volume and density to your jawbone.

• Implant insertion: This is the most delicate process of the dental implant procedure. An implant that’s too shallow or deep will compromise the integrity of the entire tooth. Similarly, the implant shouldn’t be too close to a nerve or be in the wrong position to avoid misalignment. Luckily, Dr. Hwang has the technology, craft, and experience to place implants in precise locations in your jawbone.

• Crown placement: After implant insertion, the post fuses with the jawbone after a few months through osseointegration. The result is an implant post strong enough, just like your natural tooth root. After healing, we carefully insert an abutment that connects the implant to the crown. Then, after about two weeks of healing, we complete the dental implant process by installing a natural-looking dental crown. However, some patients may require a denture or bridge if they miss several teeth.

Once you lose your natural tooth, another one will never grow back. But with dental implants, you have a replacement that restores the functionality and feeling you had when all your natural teeth were intact.

Dental Implants Near Me

Now that you know dental implants are the stable and natural-looking tooth replacements you are looking for, please dial (360) 502-7217 to book an appointment with Creo Dentistry to complete your smile.

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